love’s canker

Glacial white

creeping demise

lethal, you knew

stood silent watching

through lazy eyes

words trapped inside

a slow white death

you could stop

yet uttered no breath

Just communication

a transient anchor

that would hinder

this love’s canker

i don’t know you

who are you now?

but you waited

sure organic change

would save you

the return to

how things were -

it never came

through tears slur

words of amendment

her eyes have love

but icy, resolutely

strong, adamant

she pulled the plug

White palmed tiles

tears in water

remorseful shower

regrets and hollow

your echoed sob

now you know

you get it now

we’re becoming strangers

that subtext unsaid