A little poetry for you guys -- this one is called Blazing and is about missing my POOKIE (<3), and while it's a little depressing, I think I did okay at throwing in some interesting imagery.  I also did one of my very few experiments with rhyming (internal and otherwise) on this particular poem.  Enjoy~

Blazing

I'm blazing on the couch

like a phoenix trying to live again,

trying to catch your winsome smile

between the popcorn

beneath our sky.

Could I say why

I spent the money that way?

No, I guess not, but it could be

my soul trying to say

life is little more than this

with you away,

alone every day,

no matter who comes by

to pull me

deeper into the rabbit hole.

I'm sliding over

the drabness of mushrooms,

gigantic brooms shifting water,

ceaseless motion in the dark, darker

until gentle hands shake me awake

for a little while

and I find myself in reality

wanting never to fall back asleep.

But I must,

and I'll be slumbering here,

until something queer

and oddly familiar jars me,

hefts my scaly form

from off my gold,

from under my popcorn,

and flings me into the world again,

part and parcel, kith and kin,

into the shallows where I long to swim

and to wade together with you.