Any love here will simply be invisible
Hidden in the arms of darkness
Nothing that's conceivable is ever unforgivable
And nothing that's forgiven can ever be escaped
Nothing is seen. Nothing is answered
When did I become invisible
Where did I leave you
Safe in the darkness
Who will you be when I am not watching
Who am I now it is dark
Afterwards is coming
Cold as ice
Waking from a dream
The unwelcome morning
Close to my skin
Smoulder in the night
Extinguish the flame
Burn without brightness
Uselessly mouthing the dreams of expectation
Floundering in the quietness
Trumpeted salvation has deadened your heart
Cold hands and cold heart
Closing your eyes to obscure the familiar
Temptations of love
Looking away as you hold my hand
Should I start here
Forget me as you flee
Leave messages for my friends
I will burn in my own speculation
And you won't dare look back
Indecision in the night
The undetectable indecision
Trusting the dark to obscure the cruelty
Blackened into saintliness
Charred perfection of love's ashes
Did you have a broken doll when you were a child
Did you snap its head off
Observe the slowly closing eyes
The plastic stump remains behind
Testament to your will
We were alight and the fire burnt out
Searching the corners for cold satisfaction
Checking for pearls that were swept under carpets
Cold in the holds
Wrestling with oblivion
We lied together as we lay together
We sought the consolation of illusion
Better to mislead than to believe
Closing my eyes to pretend there was brightness
Blackening the light entertainement
Far distant stars whisper light from the past
Their coldness is strange and appealing
Burning a message long since forgoten
Burning but no longer feeling
Close the door and turn the stars out when you leave It would be easier if we were broken
It's hard to watch this dark perfection
Intricate shadows in the night
The dark machinery of our intentions
Silent inquisition without sight
We have transcended understanding
We have no time for love or care
Even the light of burning bridges has been extinguished
In the night a scentless flower blooms un-noticed
A tree falls in a forest
I remember the recompense of colour
The orange incandescence of ancient bulbs
The fluorescent buzz of tubes
As you come closer the light is obscured
Fleeting corona engulfed in the dark
The expanding shadow of our affection
A retinal afterglow where once shone a heart
Silence and symmetry
The hot wax of the extinguished candle
Trapped in unforgiving glass
I have dropped a thousand promises
And every one has broken
I have cultivated plots that have decayed
Gold would not have tarnished, we were wrong
The sun will not burn black until it dies
The sinking sun warmed us to the shadows
Colour is the memory of a dream
In the bright light we closed our eyes
And this is what we've seen
Cover my face with your darkening kisses
Shoot me like a germinating love
Blinded by experience
Weighed down by our shadows
We have clutched at straws of darkness
The blackness of hope before we fell
Black wings in the night
An unseen migration of love
The fluttering wings of the heart
Unspoken distances travelled unknowingly
The reckless isolation of the past
I have bitten off more than I can chew
I have become things I will not return to
I lost my heart to you and lost you with it
I wrote 'return to sender' on my heart
But you never brought it back
Darkly lost among suggestive shadows
This solid silhouette of history
Does your shadow still touch your feet
Are you still joined to darkness where you stand
Have you both evaporated in the night
I will be old, perfumed in blackness
Stained still with your darkness
unconnected to the origin of youth
A sinking celestial lightberg
A shadow clinging to the ground
When all else fails, you and I will not be an exception
Hold me as we fall
We have the time to stain oblivions caress
And shout the words that blackness will engulf
We need not fear the dimming light that hides futility
If I was young or you were someone else
This is the hand we play
Tricks and hearts and settled scores
The aching fear that's left
The space defined by things that ran away
Cover me in kisses, I have lost my outline
The shallow saliva boundary of myself
Which one of those was the line we should not cross
Devotion dessicated in sticky definition
A kiss betrays a person underneath
Prepare the cleaver
Slice the light too thin to heal
Advance the cause, split solitude asunder
Tear the clouds apart in thunder
Grumble in dissolution like the waves of night
Be mine, benign, be what you will
If there is will left in you
Shun the image in your eyes
Excavate the darkness you discarded
Pacify the cheerful voices of the future
Burn with me if you must
Let ashes mark the story's path
Insoluble minerals trace the obdurate line
The telling black web of vanity
One final fitful epitaph
Once
We were young
The sun rose
Burnt
Died
We knew eachother far too well
To dwell in the deceit of time
We knew that time would etch the painful story
Already written on our hearts
All that was new was clarity
Deceit is not betrayal but affection
The kindly touch of death
The poisoned kiss of life from ancient friends
The whispering solitude of your breath
The mudslide of your warm suffocation
Carry me in darkness to the edge
Show me the invisible abyss
I will float in the terror of destiny
Break the heart to me gently
Burn like the evidence
When you are alone there is no fear like company
Stand witness to the polished victory of our perception
The empty shell of dissipated longing
Long ago you could curdle my blood
So long I had forgotten
Days end in funerial precision
Night sinks into unleavened dawn
Hidden in the darkness
The fading vision of forgetfulness
Closer to your heart than hope
You were the one who threatened so much
The trumpeting triumph of grief deferred
Cold as the market for love songs
When all you had left was the fiction
Biting your lip in the friction of twilight
You have hidden in dark eyes
Trade the dark future for the warm glow of the past
Lose the key that fits the lock
Nurture the dark in the attic
Remove the hands from the clock
I have revolved in your gravity
I have been crushed like the stars
There are colder things than emptiness in my heart
I dreamt last night of daytime and I woke up sweating
The light defies your orbit
Broken things are always placed beyond sight
Cold starlight shows their form and hides their flaws
You and I are doomed to know eachother
Through the distance of the dark
We shatter on arrival
I have gathered myself like a lantern
Closed the story of the door
You were retained like the crumbs in the toaster
The dissipated promise of your dreams
You cannot lie for long in this warm bed
I have been as honest as you will let me
I dutifully closed my eyes to things I shouldn't see
I have never lied to you to lay with you
Pulled a soft cover over the truth
This is the sin than begins in sincerity
You are the point that the cushion was missing
Closed in a world that resembles itself
A deft approximation of reality
The clothes still standing without the man
A journey without a destination
You are the time that passed so slowly
The silent age beteen the clock
A forgotten vigil in the night
The vigilant vigilante of disregard
you are the slam that the new door anticipates
The heavy reciprocation of breath racks your body
Movement without lightness
Suffer the cold articulation of habit
Limbs to lift two hearts too high
And slide beyond the reach of comfort
Morning without warning arrives like a departure
Colour flows in like an illusion
Safe in the unwanted truth of the dark
These are the lies that the bed brought together
Lie in the dark, there is comfort in strangers
Even when there is nothing it leaves a shadow
The dark mark of a broken promise
Deep and dark your eyes and promises
The look that follows the laugh
Rebuffed suggestions
In this way and that
You were always the bearer of unfortunate events
The exchange of incomprehensibility
Travelling in dark places
Your love blackened my hands with ashes
Darkness understands the fear
Soothes the terror in its arms
Dawn brings the hope but tears the comfort of the night
Shadows describe the circles of your solitude
The falling night crushes words
The trophy is tarnished the silver is dented
There is a crack in the bell
I hear you calling in the distance
But my voice has never reached you
And I don't try any more
The bleached bones of our endeavour
Mark the places we once passed
Stained with the colour that drained from your passion
Bright colours of the day extinguished
Fading long before the night
A smile from the sparkening eyes of a stranger
Reveals the gathered clouds
We sheltered from the summoning thunder
And watched the electrifying dissipation
Into crashing oblivious darkness
We were young once, you and I
Though we didn't know it at the time
The pace of life evaded capture by the heart
And by and by the force of habit
Froze us in our tracks
I do not feel your heart beat in the night
Night birds will not whistle the rhythm of your breath
The sensual fiction of your presence
As dreams evaporated in unwelcome colour
The monochrome myopia of self-deception
I brandished you like a flaming torch
Swallowed by the night
A dark stick to beat back the day
A drum for the minions of passion
A kind word that was needed but not meant
Scatter my ashes in the shade of a tree
Let the cold wind blow through me again
Think of me only in solitude
Sigh with the owls once more
Think of me only at nightfall
My feeble grasp of light once struggled
To articulate dark plans
And trace the gentle contours of your spine
Soft trembling lines of light across your ribs
Dissolve in bands of darkness
I do not regret the days of fading love
I would not close the distance of departure
In the warmth of the summer sun
Come sit on me beneath the ash strewn tree
One more time
The small events of life
Return as particles of smoke
A swift conflagragion
And a choking conclusion
Clouds formed of memories
Out in the distance among the strange light
The shade of shapes leering magnetically onwards
Dressed like stone in impeccable decision
Answer impossible questions
Close down the chances
Broken promises are easier than broken dreams
There's always someone else to blame
You tell me exactly how much you don't need me
Quantifying the offence for my convenience
To protect me from uncertainty
I kissed you on the day hope died
The fading flowers perfume of despair
I smiled warmly as you walked away
Closed the door of my countenance
And watched you leave
Kiss of a dream in the morning
The silence of a fall
Warm promise of the wind that carries you away
Seduced by the tidiness of an empty heart
Waiting patiently for significance
No-one else could save him
When he gave himself up
My grey grandfather knew the colours
It isn't enough to know it
When the doors are closed
Impossible balance to see and not act
Sparkling in the night
Small memories
The pins and needles of perception
Grind away the passed over days
Ideas that cling like treacle on the hands
The endless excitement of revelation dulls the senses
Close to me, closed to me
Quiet as a painting, always retreating
Bouncing against the repulsive glazing
This is a small day in the measure of things
As dark as a shadow and intangible
Coincidence of chaos, spilt colour
Dissolving as you watch
Nothing I have seen or touched will matter