Quake!
To our great dismay
She violently trembled
Stoic far too long
Against the perpetrators
Who bore into her body
©️Kay Salady
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Yours
We run together
Through a land of ecstasy
Created by two
Where nobody can enter
Except you and me my dear
The love that binds us
Cannot be put asunder
For my faith prevails
Above the arrows that fly
Or severe incantations
My heart is your heart
The blood coursing through my veins
Has a great purpose
To keep love alive
To keep love alive
©️Kay Salady
The One
Where is my true love
The one who always carries
My heart inside his
There a once steady rhythm
Can be felt so close to mine
The tempo rises
My breath suddenly quickens
As though he were here
Touching me with a body
That I have never explored
A hundred lifetimes
I’d wait to make the journey
Die and die again
If just to make acquaintance
With his kiss and his embrace
©️Kay Salady
*Photography by Kay Salady
Spears of Fire
She is missing
And I am missing her
As Perseid showers
Spears of fire
Towards a heart
Already pierced
By such absence
Who pulls the trigger
That fires white pain
Towards me
For I am blinded
By the dazzling light
In a world
Of darkness
Who pray tell
Pierced a hole
In the sky of blue
Where her sweet eyes
Once resided
Now all I feel
Is numb
Will I forget
Her face
Her touch
Or the scent of her hair
Is my girl lost
Somewhere
In the faraway
Where all my cries
Go unanswered
©️Kay Salady
In Mute Appeal
I wait for words to fall
Into the fragile spaces
Of a mind that longs for something
Other than emptiness
There must be an expression
For the feelings I suppress
Oh so desperate to scream out my pain
To release from quivering arms
This burden that I carry
©️Kay Salady
Sacrificial Rain
The sky is weeping
Oh how I envy the fact
That clouds hold no pain
Such as me in my sorrow
An outburst of tears nearby
©️Kay Salady
Maia
When the flower moon nears full
They step around a wooden pole
Tying ribbons in the wind
With gleeful songs that do ascend
Toward the goddess of the spring
All-in-all their offering
Is a frenzied playful dance
With hope for harvest and romance
©️Kay Salady
No Longer Mine
A heart worn on a sleeve
Pledged to never leave
One so divine
You are no longer mine
Where there was Paradise
There are self-soothing cries
And shame a newfound friend
Putting to an end
The glory days
©️Kay Salady
Second Chance
A steep decline
down the ladder of hope
Sucks away all faith
like air from the lungs
And I flutter to the ground
to grovel at your feet
Clutching clods of earth
from the garden of our love
Where have I failed you
A thousand times I cry
Scratching at your window
to know the reasons why
you’ve turned your face from me
and forgotten who I am
Still I follow you
like some wayfaring lamb
Taking all my anger
and tossing it aside
To fools who care to listen
All that’s left inside
are memories of us
The us that used to be
I have forgotten who you are
You have forgotten me
A stranger to a stranger
keeping up the dance
A dance of want and longing
a dance of second chance
Trees within the wind
asking it to blow
in some unknown direction
that neither of us know
Confusion settles in
to dirty up the soul
Words are lost somehow
A long-forgotten goal
drifts upon the wind
foreign and obscure
When I lost your love
I am no longer sure
©️Kay Salady
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