Ramparts

Your 

Inserted charms

Could not

Outweigh

Your splintered

Promise

After all. 

Do not

Return.

I won’t

Let down

A bridge

Or share

A stare

Below the walls

Or answer

Your uncertain

Liquid call

Across the moat

Again. 

Though at night

When unpredicted rain

Escapes the silver sky

And breezes rake their gentle claws

Against my pressured window,

Waters lower deep into the trench's floor.

I break in fissures. 

You could walk right in.

- 7/15/25