JRVA -
Thanks for the comment... I usually read the poems outloud to myself as I'm working on them.... glad to see they have an effect on someone else. I think spoken words can have so much power
Another addition:
Sapphire Glass
A bone chilling breath across my cheek
A dead stillness in the air
Eyes adjust to the darkness
All to be seen in the shroud of black
Two orbs of sapphire, glass
Their gaze fixed upon my face
Obeying the silent command
Blankets fall away as I step beyond
The ground rushing, bringing oblivion
Except this ground holds translucent shades
Bent in the light cast by distant stars above
Faded lavender, then single blades
Holding perfectly shaped dew
dance across my vision
My mind struggles past lethargy
Age, wisdom reflected in those staring depths
Holding under key solutions of this mystery
Drowning out hope, leaving only veiled truth
In the same instant both comforted and terrified
Torn with indecision to heed or defy
Unspoken orders emitted from those spheres of ice
No longer time to choose
Lifted away, still not a clue
All too soon back within familiar sights
Left to wake once again
Alone, but haunted,
by piercing orbs of sapphire glass.