This evening’s clutch of twitter prompt poems. Funny how they follow a theme.
Do you see me
through the cigarette haze
as you pour another glass of champagne?
Am I a ghost
that hangs in the rafters of memory?
Is dawn breaking or night falling?
Time stopped when you went away,
the sun and moon,
guttering candles
compared with your face.
A cat in my shadow stalks
with eyes of fire.
A light at your window breaks,
I see your silhouette
and wait, cat-like,
for the dark.
Watch the stars fall and wish,
for all the things you’ll never have,
like sun at midnight,
a crown of stars
and me.
Cat sleeps with half-open eyes
and dreams of birds
that shine like stars
in the coping of heaven’s roof.
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