Quaking

Why is everything
so earthquake-like?

(Ogre-like)

Flicking from dream to 
nightmare-like


just when I think I 
understand the quaking
and have learnt to ride it


you change the rhythm 
of your stamping

and I lose my 
Feet my head my sense
of gravity 

(again)

In heartbreak

You barely exist right now
You are
Transparent.
Your words soft
And weightless, floating up 
Somewhere less painful as 
Soon as they escape your mouth

And every muscle on your 
Face says you wish you could
Join them.
Float and be nothing. Silent
and no longer attached, no longer
Flinching at every beat of some one
Else's heart.

I wish I could help you. Float you
With helium balloons (the ones we'll walk
Round the zoo for your sister's babyshower
Tomorrow)

Only lightly tied to the earth
In heavenspace, safe
For the light
And the healing