Sestina

Into the depths of hate I fall

Deep, dark, quiet.

My fear, I find

Paralyzes. I’m unable to breathe

As the lack of love

For myself outwardly rings.

 

I think I can hide my shattered love;

That if no one hears me breathe,

They’ll never chance to fall

For my brokenness and quiet.

So my phone doesn’t ring

And I protect the innocent from a sad find.

 

But that’s all changed since my unsuspecting find.

You caught me from my perilous fall

Dangerously drawing me out from my cloud of quiet.

My warning with a desperate ring

Couldn’t stop you loving even the way I breathe.

You showed me a selfless kind of love.

 

Now I am breathless whilst free to breathe,

Overtaken by a gripping love,

Laughter finally free to ring.

Lost in your eyes, I find

That the fear keeping me quiet

Kept me too long from this beautiful fall.

 

Now in the quiet,

I only hear my happiness ring,

Bringing out my yet untapped love.

Free to open up and fall

Far away from fear. Satisfied, I find

That risks are better than to simply breathe.

 

Now on bended knee, holding a diamond ring

You ask me to forever try to find

Each other in the dark. To breathe

As one and never let fade our love.

To embrace our slow fall

Into an oblivion of quiet.

 

My quiet tears drip down as my head falls into a nod.

The ring, a sparkling promise of tomorrow, makes it hard to breathe.

To find you, I’m convinced, was an utter blessing of love.