Wanderling❁

Daily Haiku - Thirty Seven

Don't give me away

Let me stay this secret thing

Sleeping in your bed

And I long to swim

 

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A shallow stream is deepening

The water moves, now fast

What once was faster than fleeting

is moving slow, as though to last

A new forever place, 

with an end unseen

The river becomes a lake

and the lake is deep as the sea

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Nightly

 

Every night I lie awake caressing the empty air as if it is the palm of your hand or the soft skin of your forehead wrinkled by a sleeping smile. It always takes me a minute to return to my senses, to realize that I'm holding nothing but air, and I let my hands fall to my face to press the tears back into my eyes. The waves of missing you are so strong I wonder how they don't disturb the air around your bed each night, too.

What music brings sleep to you, your crutch and cradle, away from the tide of thoughts that keep me up this way?

Daily Haiku - Twenty Six

The rain in my world,

It makes another ocean

And I close my eyes

Daily Haiku - Thirty Five

I think that maybe

Possibly, oh, I just might be

Crazy and in love

 

Daily Haiku - Thirty Four

I am not afraid

Because now I am aware

I am not alone

Daily Haiku - Thirty Three

"I miss you" - not you

I miss the you I once knew

Hope you miss you, too

Daily Haiku - Thirty Two

Whatever's left, love

Wrap it up, don't let it waste

Let's take it to go

 

Meaning

 

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I am the whisper on the sidewalk

I am the kisses in the window

I am the scent of the dawn of morning

I am the feelings in the spilled drink

I am the echo to the walk down the stairs

I am the memory on the long drive

I am the shade of fearful silence

I am the shiver in the night

I am the bitterness in the breeze

I am the water in your eyes

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Daily Haiku - Thirty One

Whatever we are

I remember what we were

Effortlessly one