[ Author's note: It obviously doesn't say, but is written for Emma after the senior dance fiasco. What killer heartbreak, eh? ]


Sublime

Beautiful suffering;
This is so exquisite
It buries me;
Drowns me under miles of ocean
Exalted pain
Lifts me into the skies
My heart is the earth––
Broken, bruised, volcanic
A hurricane of lovesick despair––
And tiny;
A droplet;
Less

Should I feel such raw human ache
And such glory at once?
Can my heart contest
Or will I be rent
My humming atoms
Flung to each corner of the earth
And farther...

His face and his voice
Everlasting echoes
My naked soul imprisoned
In his careless hands

Did I secretly long for this?
Am I as easily beguiled––
Crucified––
By his oblivious abuse
As by his sweetness and beauty?
(How empty of me
To be so full of you)

Resurrect me
Again;
Lift me from the ashes
Roll away the stone
My sacred heart

I ignite
A flaming sky;
I walk a path of coals
I burn so brightly I am blinded
And you
Don't
See