Scales

Naked in the clouds
Voluminous sky cocoons wrapping our perfect imperfections
Our lovers wounds
Blooming into tendrils of lions heads, demon wings and angel eyes
That frolic in our naked curves, valleys and secret gardens
Bequeath our skin with shades of violet aphrodisiacs, transposed over the rise and fall of our innocence –
Breathe irous flames into our fire, burst life into our loss, drip down our chins with the sweetness of late summer cherries
When hearts drink in the suns nectar and the moons mythical silvery glow…
You are standing in my shadow
Metamorphosing into my souls similar
Perching in the treetops of my mind
Caramel eyes focused on visions of my dreams and distortions, my tortured denials of myself –
My raptured longings of my ancient, dusty, dented scales falling away…
To reveal beauty beneath the dreadful
Your knowing eyes soothing the burdens of my doubts
As you watch the movies in my head, tender spots where I’ve named my demons –
Named myself…
A malady of misery seeking a savage rain in the desert, to wash my damages –
To birth my blood red flower
This turmoil beneath the soil, these roots of stagnation and anemic stems that starve my seed –
Corrupt its flourish, desecrate its season and pluck its bleeding petals to grind them on the riverstones
Where the hell hags slither, sway, gyrate… beneath their winter black veils
Their weeping mewls incantations to torment the dying –
Shadow pigments of blue, turquoise, purple and grey cascading down the trees
While the hillsides melt from the gaze of these haunted eyes
I call to you, and
Your sweeping wings carry my miseries, lift the deadweight of nightfall psychoses
To soar into star points, where an aperture of silvery light pivots and warms –
Slender fingers of radiance that reach into my blistered bones
Capture the inception of lost illusions, grind them into pastel remnants, and toss them
Into a starless night skies cavities where they paint a devotional rosary…
Embellishing my skull eyes with shades of garnet hope
Anchoring my heart to loves adamant depth in our celestial equinox burning wild
A harvest brewing, where we dance in rose-jeweled fields
Our consonant hearts like moon corridors –
Leading to where dreams are eternal flames that never sleep
But soar between stardust and spectacle on fireflies lacy wings –
Our seeds of love ripe and plump, brimming with luscious verve
As we stitch all constraints into ropes of passion
Our naked souls shimmering in each others eyes
Skirting the skies wispy blue fields like dragonflies frolicking
On the cusp of magics luminous audacity
Free falling over the edge, arms wide open
To catch the stars, scoop up the sublime from the galaxy –
Drench each other in our transcending love