Leaves

They were lovely and they were good 
They played music into the night 
dreamy but not sending me to sleep
They passed their instruments around 
like a midsummers dance 

The girls I’d play for 
Cried tears I could filter the out the joy from 
Night time shone a shadow onto their lives
Cheering for a lullaby 

They swim you out to the sky and dive

Moonlighting as musicians 
Morning comes and only then you’ll listen 
To the songs always hearing them 
As you did that lullaby night 
Where you dive 
And choose to dive
Into the light 

I think I’m dreaming now 
The seams have closed on my darkness somehow
I wander down the path of healing 
Hands are there when I’m reaching 

The boys who played for me 
Catch fireflies when I’m mesmerising 
Sunlight shone into each others lives 
Swim me out to the sky and dive

They were lovely and they were good

you are dressed in amethyst
shrouded in a sapphire’s kiss
wait until the night grows still
i’ll cover up your brittle skin

silken blue, my thoughts of you
float between the cellar and the moon
white cotton sheets, tanned blistered feet
we forget the moment that we sleep

inseparate
drunk on your myth
we’ll drown as one in the rivulet
in that flowing stream
we are washed clean
to be reborn and sewn with wings

carlotta comes in the waining sun
waves down to me from the highest rung
starlight sings, pulls us in
to waltz again along the rings of saturn

in green and gold, on tippy toes
don’t let the story stay untold
a wedding day, summer parade
shimmers in the light but never fades

temperate
bit by bit
we drift apart in the cosmic shift
tell me once
is it what you want
twice could never be enough

you illuminate my mind
then drink my glass of wine
“you’ll always be protected”
etched into your necklace

in that flowing stream
we are washed clean
to be reborn and sewn with wings
to be reborn and sewn with wings
to be reborn

amethyst

Robbie Raidan

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