for some truly odd reason, i envisioned a lesbian couple in this poem. i have no real clue as to why.



our gentle hell


running against the wind
with your name on my lips
i can't seem to remember
i can't seem to recall

where i laid your fragile body
here in this dark and sad
garden of dying flowers
and suffocating perfume

stumbling falling lost here
in this gentle hell i created for us
crying moaning desperate and
waiting for you to call out to me

throw up the dark petals against
the coming storm of regret
come to me and sing with a
broken throat and heart

come now

and

die with me

in this fading garden

of

our

gentle and silent hell.