Alyx Chérifa Taounza-Jeminet

And you were wondering, after all this time
Why the pain still echoed with her voice

Admit your failure. Shriek till the imprint of
our passing in this bed fades from memory.

Dying a melodious death was all she ever wished for. It never occurred that a song could simply vanish.

Before it ever made sense that you were sinking
Into the sheets made of purest silk, deep sleep,
I remember you tiptoeing around the nest
As if coming to a halt during a perilous hike
Waiting to see what nature's response would be
To your extatic discovery, of a patch of grass.

You'd roll onto me crashing on my ever so fragile
Love for you
Others wrote of the sounds of the sea. You silenced the depths.
Cheeks wet. Please let me.

A light through me. A black flashing vision affixed to the ceiling. Landscape of your voice.
Getting darker as I fall asleep.