Dissolution

Clouds spilled their melancholy to feed
a gradual dissonance of the fading blue
poured love washed away from
the crumpled paper lying deep
within the private quarters,
It bore inside the inexplicable words
practiced innumerably in front
of a mirror perpetually blurred
Never were they put forth to the recipient
fatal it would prove if ever revealed
instead they were swallowed in
a daze of momentary panic, gulped
drowned with whiskey, indulged
One night the mirror gave up the charm
bottle was neglected, another letter
devoured by fire, want dissipated and sky cleared.