& the lungs of the night sky breathe you in
& the bloody pulse of the city streets pumps you out
the old ladies in the balcony drink you down
like a drifter in the middle of a drought
you can't hear me over the bass boom
you can't see me waiting here
i yelled but i was lost in reverberation
yelled to a face so dear
and our eye beams, like laser lights
shining sanguine red & verdant green
melting film strips into puddles
burning holes in the cinema screen
i know you feel it through the cabin floor
that's the beat of icarus' wings
hermes' sandals on my feet
eros' heart on a string
walking on the moonlit strip
of sidewalk, mostly obscured
by the shaggy trees overhead
and the clouds of gray velvet, pure
take a breath, if you can
breathe it in with your eyes
hear it with your fingertips
i know what it implies
when colours can sing, & words can dance
pirouette on your ear drums, with a loud allez-oop!
legato, as they dance to la campanella
pianissimo as sleepy heads droop
but you were impatient, you wouldn't listen to me
i only wanted to hold your hand
you wanted more than i knew that i had
falling through the ocean floor like hydrophobic sand
'you're insane'; never had truer words been spoken
and i felt you slip away
you never found out about shiera hawk
or custard on saturdays
or that we're made of stardust
when they exploded eons ago
fine powdered diamond falling to earth
misting molten lava with their silvery glow
about the big blue books of stories
with the little girls & teddy bears
or that barbies were never charlie's thing
she always tangled up their stringy plastic hair
or how she'd beat down the walls
and ask god why
she was stained in ebony, not painted in ivory
& no one heard her cry
'hey, stay, I love you," when you pass
the summer walks away in your flesh
the wind runs bony fingers through your hair
gravity tries to catch you in the mesh
i didn't listen to momma, not this time
georgie porgie, pudding and pie
daddy said he'd buy a shotgun
kissed this girl and left her to die.
 chai high · Fri May 07, 2010 @ 03:09am · 0 Comments |
