Scarlet XVII

The water is rising, the waves are crashing all around, and desperately I search for the shore.

Scarlet XVI

You are as present as the rise and fall of the tides.

Scarlet XV

We were simply two comets traversing the sky. I reached out and found your hand in mine. Somehow I thought, if I just hang on, everything will be okay. Neither of us could hold off that much gravity. I would do it all over again. Some with pain is better than none at all.

Scarlet XIV

We swung and we missed it.

But missing doesn’t make the attempt less glorious.

It was glorious.

Scarlet XIII

There’s a new version of you who visits my dreams every night. The truth is that you, will always, be the one who calls forth the storm that sleeps within. It matters not how many years pass by—it will always be Ü.

Scarlet XII

That level of Love floods the breath of life through the lungs of the dead.

Scarlet XI

Every time I think I’m about to finally find the shore a hand grabs my ankle and pulls back to the depths of you.

Scarlet X

Somewhere in your absence, the dagger became your memory rather than your absence. I could easily pull it out. In doing so I might heal, or maybe I’ll just bleed out, or worse—maybe when the pain fades I’ll simply forget you altogether.

Scarlet IX

While on a walk in the cold, silent, night air, a curious little rabbit came across my path. I looked to the moon, and your memory blew from one end of my mind to the other. In that moment, the wind carried the smell of smoke from a smoldering fire to me to shatter the illusions of this world.

Scarlet VIII

With each new goodbye

The breath of pain was less and less

Until there was nothing left to feel.

Scarlet VII

I was in the deep end,

Not even looking for land,

Just quietly drowning,

Yet there you were.

Scarlet VI

The bright memory of you,

is a warmth on my soul,

in an otherwise cold world.

Scarlet V

It’s you, just you.

You are the war within.

Scarlet IV

I am forever torn between,

Loving you completely and,

Loathing you entirely.

Scarlet III

I wish the knowing that we were never meant to live forever,

removed the desire for more time with you.

Scarlet II

You were the place where time stood still and the world falls away.

The one fear that remains, is never finding my way back to that place—maybe I never will.

Perhaps in the next life we’ll be able to hang onto the moment for a while longer.

Scarlet I

Every now and then, a memory floats forward from somewhere far behind.

I whisper your name in melancholy—and some creature stirs beneath my skin.

The chill only reminds me of just how real it all was.