metonymy4u

                        emily

because you didn’t know
i was alive i had to live
just this side of love,

dreaming of a time
when your river would end in flowers,
my cliff dissolved in rain.

all chances,
answered.

travesty,
defamed.

this side of things
always seemed so barren,
at times less than bright.

but i think the coin
that shines itself is a day,
to its own starry starry

night.