Pleading

You lay there.
Wanting,
Needing,
Feeling,
Pleading,
To be touched.
Touched as only a lover could.
Touched by hands that aren’t cold.
Cold like ice.
Ice in a winter storm,
Showering hail down.
Hail from a blackened sky.
Black like night,
Black like his heart.
A heart that doesn’t beat,
But simply is.

You stand there.
Looking,
Seeing,
Hearing,
Fleeing,
From bad dreams.
Dreams of a trusted friend.
Dreams from which you run.
Run like the wind.
Wind that pursues,
Howling promises of old.
Promises for a broken heart.
Broken like a twig,
Broken like this house.
A house that doesn’t breathe,
But simply is.

You fall there.
Begging,
Asking,
Praying,
Masking,
Your feelings.
Feelings of betrayal.
Feelings of desire.
Desire like flames.
Flames in a bonfire,
Burning lives away.
Lives from a hidden life.
Hidden from me,
Hidden from the world.
A world that doesn’t think,
But simply is.