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Nightshade distance in the rearview
I painted the sky crimson for you
Melted the vowels until the words sound
Like warm ocean waves to dive into
We both knew this was coming
We’d stopped spirit dancing long ago to the drumming
Behind the lids of your eyes sleeps the carousel ride
With those heart shaped swans that are constantly humming…
How can I ever forget you?
All these scars on soft skin that you’ve tattooed
All these ghosts in cruel dreams that unravel the seams –
Of soft spoken gleams that I cling to
There is no sound in the drowning
Only shadows that fall down while surrounding
Come watch me bleed through these words I don’t need –
In this dim smoky room
That’s become my cocoon –
While inky breath of despair I’m expounding…
I stir the stars into shadows of vexed crows
Prophets of tumescent ruin and woe
Dahlia tear-ladened curled parchment pages
Lament of missed love I was cursed only to borrow
Your brutally beautiful haunting moon eyes
I take it all back; I want to revise
Running down my heart like red candle wax –
All of your too good to be… pretty poison butterflies…
Did you ever consider how a reprieve
Would give me a chance to steal air so that I could breathe?
Would give me time to locate a gypsy sky to hide my pain
Until I salvaged faith, hope and love that I again could weave?
And this peculiar drowning has a familiar note sounding
This novella I write of dead words that have become my surrounding
I bleed vocabulary that traces love like it was a poetic weed –
In this dim, dusty gin and cigarette smoky room
That’s become – The gins gone; Now its a whiskey cocoon –
Loves tentacle web pasted cadaver dreams in inky-rouged prose I’m expounding…
Bordeaux scented rune astral kiss
Tasted like candy-coated starlit amulet bliss
Time reveals its reasons through dream sequence seasons
If you’ll step through the mystical veil to reminisce
I can see our distance in the rearview
Finally I’m moving past you
But all these dream catchers, signs, totems and motifs
Make this fire dance an inferno in which I can’t refract or subdue