Ashes and Ice

Dissolve me in water

Collect me in ice

It wasn't once that I thawed out

Not once, but twice.

Collect all my ashes 

Set loose in the dirt 

They swirled up around you

And you left them
dispersed

In the wind as it carries

My ashes away

Through fields of bright color

And corridors of gray 

Till at once they did settle

In some distant place 

To be ever forgoten

A memory erased 

Can you still see the quite?

The thoughts ever still 

Left there in a puddle 

Of ashes and silt 

No longer a factor

No longer the case 

But some afterthought, dear

Other time 

Other place

Echoes of Nothing

You, you woke up screaming.

And I, I woke up dead. 

All your words, they 

Filled with meaning, 

As they resounded in my head. 

And the sounds

They faded quickly.

The quite

Filled with dread.

The oscillating fractions

Splitting numbers 

Letters

Ends.

Does this chaos, here

Confine you?

Or does it 

Set you free? 

Because your voice,

It keeps reverberating

Off of you and 

In through me.

And you,

Evoke the question.

And I,

Define the lie.

But Somewhere in the static,

Something in me died.

Some resurrected fiber.

Some arbitrary line.

Nothing short of tragic,

Lingered softly 

Far behind. 

Maybe it means nothing,

Or maybe it means all

But I 

I am fading quickly.

And you

Your screams have stalled.

I hear them in my memory,

Somewhere dark 

And out of time.

I'm grasping 

Ever carefully 

For that last fragmented line. 

It's not about the ending, 

Defining is the start.

For if you truly 

Never loved me...

Then give me back my heart. 

Because death 

Is rather cold, dear.

And I need it's livley beats.

But in the echoes 

Of nothing 

I may soon admit defeat. 

For my body,

It grows tired.

And your throat, 

Your throat is dry.

I guess I just keep praying

For that one 

Fragmented line. 

Maybe you'll stop screaming

And we'll come back to life.