In Love, Falling

She wears a jewel watch
But not for the time

Moonlight used to navigate
Malleable melancholy men

A careless call to copy
Compliant cavalry killing

Unsuspecting victims
Eyes glinting of gold

Swore an oath to herself
To trust no one else

A wrist crux clasps
Together at the top

No bells in the distance
No awakening alert

Just the dark of the night
With an irreproachable breeze

A path of familiarity
In deceit of the men

A stride closer to her
Is a stride closer to death

She is hanging from a tree
With the help of a necktie

Over a dark-cloaked cliff
A hundred feet high

With forgotten time as the distance
Between life, love, and peril

- PatInTheHat

Amphitheater

A tuning orchestra
And rehearsed symphony

Not a snare
A crescendo tympani

A soft piano ballad
A boisterous trumpet

A heart-stringed harp
Along breath reeded

Fingers on Ivory's organ
Hair kissing strings

You are a xylophonic whisper
In a multitonic cavern

Each note a new color
Light piercing the rocks above

This is our theater
And you are the music

With our hearts
As the conductor

And only me
As the audience

-PatInTheHat