Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Firebrand

Ink to print and printer to soul.
Our dreams are quilted,
bleeding through fibers.

Unsteady a fantast, to crochet a
vision, while mourning softly. It came a midnight summer,
where precepts stressed, cleaving to history. We breathe
a secret, calculating verbs, ever to look normal. It was
porcelain eyes, axis of a universe, where speech was
axiom. Our linchpin, struck to endure, where a future is
laced in rubies. Every gem an architecture, pausing to breathe,
unable to type. I return, living a story, aligned with fiction.

How has it come, leaping passions, ever touched with virtue?
It’s a knotted phantom, to yearn for riches, nearly oblivious.
Thus, we want, barely afloat, wafting through tinted grays.

Where is strength, a radical strength, crying, “Freedom?”
I ask, snipping webs, plunged into mischief, analyzing
dialogue. So city to city, and spell to spell, we ignore what
squelches love.

Time was Brief

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