Luckless and Romantic on St Kilda Pier

Sunset folds into dusk
azure pursues the daily flame beyond the horizon
growing tangerine feathers and crimson tails
that linger
above the motorised creatures
as they crawl or sprint along geometrical black scars
in the direction of dinner

From this pier attached to popular paths
the backdrop of thrusting architecture
dissolves inside the package of darkness
as the first eyes sparkle

Dropping here
locked in my self-crisis
this setting touches me with hints of revival
in the divine foreplay of the sun’s recess

And at this pier splashed with romance
warped breezes soak the well-wishers
who stroll the edge
their loving moment gone in daylight’s wrap up

I cast one
then another
stone of money into the waves clawing this breakwater
my loneliness sucked down into water polluted with dreams

Away from the view
couples linked
unlinked
deep in rapture
stained with sunset refreshments
smile heavy with life’s silver
in a slow breath on shore again

And my odyssey continues
along the obscure route to my ultimate muse

Embraced by night
darlings travel to pockets upholstered with ardent sighs
that burn like my mistakes
as I meander under love’s canopy
deaf to the bright steady clock made ugly by desire
but these beauties soar in search of favourable constellations
that I gaze at like a baffled adventurer