Part 2/6 of "From Emerald to Hesa", a collection of poems and artwork paired together, started about 1.5 years or so ago. Figured now was as good a time as any to wrap them up! So, the poem for this piece:

I'm from nowhere,

And so are you

We brandish our cores of ice 

and northern sentimentality

Breathing cold air,

And shifting through

the sense I just can’t suffice

Despite the compatibility

I lack the courage

to be the contrast to you that I need to be

too indecisive to be your rival,

and too-hard headed to be your lover

I 

start to slip,

Feel the urgency clip

back and forth,

in circles this goes,

a path like the collar you adore

You 

Are so strong,

You know where you belong

lead the way

In that way you do,

Where all I can do is pine for more

How can we kiss

When we can't even touch? 

And what of when I finally let you swim in my surreal skin?

It’s only the beginning

Of something I don’t have the strength to keep up

keep it beneath the permafrost, 

I already know the cost

this hole is big enough only for one,

the jealous roots are pulling me

Down towards despair I can’t outrun

I’m doing everything I can, 

Sketching spectres of a better man

A pale silhouette of what I could be

Please hold on a little longer

If you would just do that for me

But you have a way of giving me solace in failure

A reminder that I might be best enjoying enterprise

From the sidelines

through all these lights and wires and miles,

I see your silhouette in bed beside me

I’m holding the frost-lit photos

So I won’t only have to dream

September will be here soon,

And you will come in with the change of leaves