A host of minced and mashed words
Crumble, like faltering ice chips
To dissolve unheard
Disbanded by the current
In rolling clatter
Through the scornful height of day

In hiding
They flourish wildly
With grand boastful hues
Some somberly swaying
Others prancing in luxury

Stashed reveries
Spark exuberant lullabies
At a juvenile zenith
Unfazed and unshaken

The fearless roar of affection
Ascends from strewn verses
Hastily scribbled
In determined ecstasy
Soothing the contours
Of lustful and heated thoughts

Yet here and now
The muttering cascades
From anxious lips
Set a quiver through the night

Soft notions fail
Dwindling without effort
Swiftly forgotten
And misplaced among the ages