~Sugar-blue~

sugar-blue eyes
velvet-soft flowers
stay with
me awhile
welcome to
wherever you are

wine lit
with sun shadows
I would
like to
pretend to
forget this
insecurity

the thick
juice of
a peach
drips away
onto the wall
that has
to be climbed

I wonder
why eternity
feels so
short as
soon
as it begins,
it's over

never say
goodbye, goodbye
means forgetting
some people can
go invisible
right before
your eyes

some people
don't realize
how lonely it
is not to
be seen

I thought
time would
pick up
where I
left it
but it
just kept
rolling on
without me
like scattered pebbles
trying to grasp
onto something

~Sarah Mahina Calvello