Afterglow

Lazy swaying

Colors

Layer

The night

Soft

And shivering

With thing’s

Unspoken

I've always loved

it here

the way the light

Dances

across the wall

afterglow

On honeyed

Wood

Don’t forget

to smell

Coffee

Again

Feel

The trembling

Petals

Of

The magnolia

Tree

I pass

Everyday

Curved

White

Pink

And

Swaying

Heavy

And heady

Lost

Voice

So long

a drop

of dew

that embraces a blade of grass

I will never give up

My evening rose

Look past

the rubble
that
tries to
define me

shiny
and surreal
this is our virtue
look into
your heart
Don’t

Hesitate

we'll start
the spark
the fire
climbs high
and hot

but I'll hold
onto
the light
that we have made
the truth
we cling to

The person

Who has fallen

Is me

We all have

This one life to live

A fleeting shadow

Soft

And seething

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~