Love Poem: Dormant Decession
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Written by: Hiya Sharma

Dormant Decession


I'm an ashen dove, 
fading in zephyr 
of wine valleys, 
saturating in fog 
upon enchanting hills, 
draped in 
grape-green silk, 
where fantasies of forest, 
sprout cynthia moon 
of a bygone 
medieval saga, 
amidst heavenly 
eventides, 
and wailing weeds 
prick my shadow,  
infusing iced intentions 
of the puppet's paradise~
floating in islets 
of shackled bones. 

My wings are 
made of violet wool, 
fluffed with 
blueberry cotton 
and stitched 
with the fabric of 
amethyst satin, 
but as soon as 
my tiptoeing feet 
touch the 
seafoam grass, 
it stings my silent 
glacial flight, 
making me bleed 
in chloroform-
dipped letters. 

If love was a 
rosy matte comet, 
I would carve 
pastel orchid smiles 
amidst kismet-coated 
cherry blossoms, 
with frozen floral paints
and forgive 
beige betrayals 
of aqua sirens, 
to which the 
scents of evermore, 
sweetly succumbed. 

But maybe, 
jasper tinted 
jasmine petals, 
are sewn with 
poisoned thistles 
whilst being 
dispersed upon 
the chambers of 
midnight raindrops, 
and those
soulful stars 
in your eyes are 
a mere mirage, 
flourishing 
false silhouettes of 
a perfumed 
saudade in 
nocturnal negligence. 

So, pardon these 
bleeding metaphors 
that echo sombre 
sun's soliloquy in the
hazy kiss of gloom 
and follow me 
to the teal towers, 
where this 
fluorescent flesh 
slumbers in enfolded 
spruce leaves of 
sequoia sonnets. 
For, when the last petal
falls as poetry, 
my soul would be 
alive in wistful runes, 
mourning in a 
doleful decanter, 
whilst eyes 
would frown 
in fragile promises, 
wiping diplomatic 
dust of dolent delusions 
and knitting mists of 
manipulations, 
carelessly sinking~
to soil of feathered 
dandelions. 

Where nurtured seeds 
of jade reflections, 
still haven't ruptured
every pixie dust of hope, 
in their life's 
dormant decession, 
reminisce me 
as an ivory moonrise, 
fluttering beyond, 
dahlia chains of sunshine.