Fallen from the arch of a rainbow

Fallen from the arch of a rainbow

Words written to steal away
the ache of somber silence
Diminish the twinge
an unheard heart pulsing restlessly

There’s a kind of solitary hush
chafes inwardly with a deafening lament
Invisible in the dewless starry eyes
as obscure onlookers pass on by

Pensiveness as vivid the memory
the incandescent quenching sun
Yet this weightless state still borne
never touched by a single caressing sole

Gravity cascades rippling downward
rolling like the flood a surging tide
Swamped by whelming distant memories
climbing over the rainbow arch of love

Swept off its expansive colour'd high-wire
into a lonely solacement woe betides
Free falling off the edge
a befallen amazing grace

Sinking level with a bottomless ocean floor
Suspended wistfully adrift
the cold dark rogue gypsy currents sway

Dreaming of looking up beyond the bounds
at last forevermore . . .

harlon rivers ©...5.25.2014