i used to worry that others would finally see the truth of me my midnight darkness entwined with silver light reject me as the monster withdraw their love threaten to set my house ablaze with their self-righteous torches i no longer have the time nor the patience for the faint of heart the weak of … Continue reading That was Then, This is Now – Christine E. Ray
There are days And nights Where the only thing Keeping me from Sliding completely into the abyss From becoming a shapeless Nameless blob of ectoplasm Is your skin against my skin Your mouth against my mouth Grounding me Calling me home Even when the knowledge Has started to slip away from me Your body remembers … Continue reading Clay
We were more than fingerprints brushed across each other’s wrists we loved recklessly and deeply dipped our hands into our souls pulled out everything we were before leaving our marks across each other’s bodies I had never seen you more beautiful than you were with my handprint caressing your cheekbone shimmering across your heart © … Continue reading Marked – Christine E. Ray
Locked away in a stone tower rest of the world fades becomes dim memory time loses meaning becomes shapeless days nights spent in solitude differentiated only by whether I read precious books by sunlight falling soft through windows that no longer open or dancing candlelight by this halflight I read the words of Tennyson and … Continue reading A Tale of Two Towers-Christine Ray & Eric Syrdal
we fell into memory like sea salt into soup pot crystalline structure losing integrity dissolving into warm liquid like the bath water you poured me scented with lavender when we belonged to each other we would lie close skin to skin on long winter nights under thick blankets our boundaries dissolving like foam on our … Continue reading Crystalline Memory
Brave & Reckless 