Remainders

close your eyes     as the sealing of shutters

when night falls in slick sonnets about this place

 

cast aside your supplication     save it for another day

instead build with me a doorway that we may both enter:

there will be time for regret, when winter calls an end

            to this harvest

 

but it is summer still     our bodies know better

than our sanity, when seasons are winding away

 

breath is enough now     between us and around

our flesh like the bending of summer wheat

golden beneath a sun meant only for one thing:

            violent fluorescence

 

we are the remainders of a daydream     an equation

unrounded and infinite as the bridge of the sky

bowing above the bed that we have stolen     the life

            we have chosen to live

 

hush now, love, tomorrow is only a possibility

dawn may never break over this roof     tonight

            is all that we have

Reviews

[Astro]

My mind is cascading down the swift and temporal slide to my youth and when first I chanced upon the lessons of arithmetic and remainders slipped into my eager mind like your words that hold urgency and calm all at once. 1 + 1 under the sun running swiftly into the night 2 voices one hushed and one excited play out the season of the dreamer in every last breath. Oh...excuse me I got a little caught up in the moment, lol. Mesmerizing and touching I enjoyed it very much.

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

So glad you enjoyed this one, my dear...I wrote it in a bit of a rush; one of those moments of quite and fervent inspiration, I suppose :)

[Astro]

Well it would seem that you were channeling something great, a truth like something mathematical that just adds up to be something beautiful.

[Tom]

Tomorrow is promised to no one so live for today !

The message is clear and succinct in these eloquently crafted words!

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Thank you, Tom...I agree completely!

[Pryde Foltz]

The sweet sadness of love you know to be doomed. But I am with you love all you can for long as you can. Such a seductive write, Sarah.

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Thank you so much, Pryde :)

[Anand Sehgal]

hush now, love, tomorrow is only a possibility
dawn may never break over this roof tonight
is all that we have

great great message ! copying it !

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Thank you so much, my friend :)

[Anand Sehgal]

breath is enough now between us and around
our flesh like the bending of summer wheat
golden beneath a sun meant only for one thing:
violent fluorescence

speechless. brilliant imagery. I am learning from you.

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

You humble me, friend! I'm glad you liked this one...it just came to me quickly, as though it needed to be written.

[Anand Sehgal]

Is it a state of confinement ( due to medication and prescribed rest ) that irked it ? :) ;-)