Surfacing

…giving love another chance…

 

Surfacing

~

half full

your words resonate
and ring reverberant
in my melancholy

half empty
has always been my perspective

finding safety
in my hollow solitude
seeing the world
refracted through my sorrow

a shattered heart
can no longer break

there is nothing to lose
for one who is without

but were your love
to flood my isolation
to drown me in passion

I would gladly
risk it all again
to swim up
to the light
to the warmth

break the surface
buoyant with bliss
wet with desire

to reach
in the throes of ecstasy
to encircle your gentle face
in a lover’s trembling hands

to draw new life’s breath
from your tender lips
offered soft
and open in rescue
in a soul-kiss of rebirth

~ ~ ~

rob kistner © 2012

16 thoughts on “Surfacing”

  1. Ooh, I like this:

    “half empty
    has always been my perspective
    finding safety
    in my hollow solitude”

    I was excited to see you link up, Rob. I enjoyed your spin on the Magpie prompt.

  2. I keep bumping into this photograph and everyone has a different perspective on it. I very much like yours, despite being a half full person! Love has to be wortgh it.

  3. For a tiny moment, the darkness ebbed,
    and you smiled, and a window re-opened
    on a heart valve, and love, the universe’s
    common denominator, pierced the gloom
    and bathed you, and us, in its light; cool.

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