soft clouds, crystal skies

10 | time and again

Through the faded throes and failed lores
I found a love so profound with much in store
Through the filth of fished seas and faltered skies
I found a love so true it erased all the lies
Though fate is harsh, the truth to us is more so
How I dig under thorny beds just so you won't go
It was not meant to be—voices of old whisper so low
It's a failed promise from the start—a failed seed to sow
But is love really what society tells us in this age?
Is it brief kisses, signatures strewn on a page?
If so, then ours truly is the fruit of sins unforgiven
Time and again, I search for you in the paid price laden

This is the love we found in the depths of despair
Where the dark is our friend and the abyss enjoys us stare
It was a minute of hell—we get burned in our sleep
How we dive and resurface. having touched the great deep
Then we break free with hearts torn and fists bloody
The light rushes in, igniting our sorrow and body
This is the love that brought us back to life
—the one that changed the course of greed and strife
If this is the truth we what we have, then I digress
Because this is worth fighting for, worth the regress
Love, I knew the reason why I choose to be here
Why, time and again, I search for the right course to steer

It is this love, darling, the one we have given up
The plains of diluted graves and tears that won't stop
I dry your cup and you fill it with unbridled hate
You soak me in poison and I always take the bait
This vessel we drink from—one our memories shared
If this is love, darling, have our souls been bared
Of hidden feelings and time given and lost
Of promised vows and prices too high of a cost?
Still, I choose to sit still and meet the coming waves
I greet the morning with a grin coming to the graves
Of my past selves—ones that were free to laugh
Time and again, I hope my love for you is enough

If this is love, darling, I guess it's right for me
To be in this bliss of heaven, free of misery
I could have turned a blind corner into the dark
Yet you hold my hand and maintained the spark
This is love—I know now—it's how we never let go
How time and again we came back to where we grow
We are hopeless fools drinking in salty tears of old
But for you, I'd do it—consider me sold
This is love, darling, and it's our choice to continue
Take my heart, my soul—together we start anew
So this is love—how little I know what is true
Time and again, I search high and low until I've found you

Not me dying in writing genre fiction that I forced poetry to take a back burner for a moment. Still, I owe it to collections like this that my prose is as good as it is now. ;-;

So yeah, idk if this poem is sad or something but it talks about the highs and lows of love and all that shizz. It's written way back february and I haven't just gotten around to updating. xD