Nite Crier Poetry and Artwork Contest Submission: Julia Gueller (Poetry)
Post date: May 19, 2017 11:37:45 AM
Kiss
Like the lovers
in that old photograph.
Intertwined
black and white
Closer than the braided knot
tied to the end of an anchor
as it sinks
down
down
down
To the bottom of the sea.
It is dark there.
A place where silence is deafening
and no light shines. But,
Dreary darkness does disperse
in the sudden
Onslaught
of brightness.
Murkiness did not always live here,
For the creek that babbled
through the Garden of Eden
used to be clearer
than the
Daylight
that now pierces the darkness.
A sword of luminescence
slicing opaque flesh
with soft lips.
A song in the silence,
and a word
among the unspoken.
She kissed him there,
among the sunset-stained leaves
that hung from branches above
and the darkness
was
No more.