Thoughts on Saying "I Love You"

Memories

They threaten to shatter precarious sanity

Enticing familiarity to the wandering soul

The only constant of homes

Sweet as the lightest milk chocolate

More bitter than the darkest dark

Trapping my buzzing mind like honey to a fly

If only I could fly

Away to the cloud castle and its bright naiveté

For I do believe that ignorance is bliss

But bliss is short lived as the good die young

Its wake leaves the mind in disarray

A brief period of confused frustration

And then maturing just enough

For the uncertain return to infancy

Vacuous and apathetic

But anything is better than nothing

Right?

Salty summer bay breeze

Early light dancing across gentle waves

The glint of sun off long pale eyelashes

My world colored a steely sky blue

And every so often flecked with green

Warm weight on my naked chest

Soft fingertips bring goosebumps

In heavenly peace I slip into the blue

And suspended in that perfect moment

A whisper promising eternity

Those three most delicate words

Though phantasmagorical in form

Betray without partiality

In the end they never help, only harm

But I can not let them go

Or I forfeit myself

To be forever empty in dreaming