Separate Bedrooms Poem by Joseph Narusiewicz

You are the vulnerable horizon
Cliffs stretch across the sky
My dearest your tears are a sea
Caves of vertigo tenderness
Until death they will not part
How the clocks chime
How life goes by
How we hurt one another

The wind howls freedom
We can never return
She sleeps alone
You know who you are
I know who you are
We shrivel without love
She goes through the motions
Dreams are hard to live without

I would hold you forever