end of the affair ...
a slip of a hand
a push
a twisting away
and feet that disappear
a sigh
a groan
a harsh rebuke
and then the cold whisper of resignation
i'm watching
your shadow
move move through the
dark room
disturbing the air
and sending electric signals
across my naked body
no longer just naked
but empty now
empty and somehow
out of place
shocked back from nerveana
by the two by two sirens
of emergency vehicles
somewhere outside the window
invisible except for
the reverberation of terror
those wailing banshees of night
screaming as a kind of anthem
to the crumble of silence
dissolving split-seconds of paradise
and i suspect that
this is the punctuated
end of the affair
a push
a twisting away
and feet that disappear
a sigh
a groan
a harsh rebuke
and then the cold whisper of resignation
i'm watching
your shadow
move move through the
dark room
disturbing the air
and sending electric signals
across my naked body
no longer just naked
but empty now
empty and somehow
out of place
shocked back from nerveana
by the two by two sirens
of emergency vehicles
somewhere outside the window
invisible except for
the reverberation of terror
those wailing banshees of night
screaming as a kind of anthem
to the crumble of silence
dissolving split-seconds of paradise
and i suspect that
this is the punctuated
end of the affair
