there was a time
two broken souls
adrift on currents
of solemn depression
saw a spark of hope
burning in one another

an addiction
dreamswollen with
mystical desires
a collision of
shattered pieces
forming a new
plateau where
the fractures
became cohesion
a collusion of
lost hearts beating
in one rhythm

a delusion dressed
in dappled daydream
hidingthesymptomsof
the cancerous need
relentlessly ignoring
the warning signs of
crumbled foundations
for fear of living
through this pain
without a partner to
share in the misery

feeding one another
from a buffet of sorrow
until finally one of us
bursts from the poisons
leaving another wartorn
landscape smoking as
we reconcile the cancer
which grew into us