Sofia Livingstone
Stranded in limbo
Between the worlds
We exist again
Night after night
Returning to You
Intermingling as One
Surrendered in presence
Floating cosmic womb
This precarious safety
Which on waking
Abruptly is gone
My precious secret
Alone in this
Raw empty shell
Every morning this
Aching heavy heart
Sorrow that burns
Penetrates my lungs
Gasping for air
Will you leave
Again and again?
I can’t bear
This endless loss
That wreaks havoc
Quietly smouldering while
Blood drains away
Why did you
Show me naked
What love is?
Only to tear
Me to pieces
Left all alone
Only with memories
Of your touch
Blissful umbilical union
Never to return
Sweet unblemished love
In the night
Living as two
Merged as One
Entwined in embrace
Delicious safe surrender
Mine to hold
In the day
Dead as One
Grasping for You
Feeling so lost
Bereft and confused
Split in half
Violent crude separation