patchouli room

laying in wait

for the potion to take 

a tender light hold of your heart 

at six thousand feet 

the atmosphere's weak 

   and the lover abandons his part  
this grey morning gloom 

all the pain in this room 
high country's fragile fresh start 

patchouli room 

ghosts autumn tomb 

the fire fails to spark

love, please come to bed 

let's get naked instead
    of eviscerating our fractured cold stars 

masks are just futile 

but 
surrender is beautiful 

this room will treasure our scars 

what should have been ours 
dissolved to salt stars 

no embers spark to fire
on tongues sharp with dust
our demons breathe rust
expectations brambled brier
thru iced windows glaze

deer come to graze 

as

we surrender our bricked-up desire 

patchouli room 

'neath silvered frost moon
trust tumbles & falls to bed 

fear slips to the side 

solace abides
the potion was ours for the taking

golden day dawns
intimacy bonds
pine wraps around crisp bones
stolen locket of time
partings solitary rhymes
with words 

    the spell is breaking