Cloud Nine

The gas, it grows thicker

On this hydro plane.

The beat of our rhythm

Just isn't the same.

Oh, how I just wish

This was no fruitless trip

With hopes of US still...

We're attached at the hip.

I wandered and stared

At the white open sky.

It rendered me calm,

With no clear reason why.

I've never been loved

In this strangest of ways

But if love is so,

For too long don't stray.

While stuck on our "then"

Avoiding the now,

Emotional coasters

Now question the "hows?".

It never came easy

To learn and to grow

So do I pick up the pieces?

From here, where to go?

I blame no one for this;

What felt so deceiving.

My cries, deeply rooted

And you don't believe me!

Everyone sees me

And questions my pain.

Could I care less

When there's so much to gain?

Again we succumb

To such distance, such haste.

Your speech filled my void.

What's love without trace?

The lust in these clouds...

My mind out of place;

Too oddly familiar

With this empty space.

-Pierina Medina