Sunday, December 13, 2015

Something Internal

It puzzles more, the sheer design, to love with wings. We journey
a cave, as brave as monks, chanting in tenor. Our violins—to
orchestra life, falling for rising; to form a teardrop, as bold as thunder,
to shatter a cello. I watch to wonder, to whisk wildly, a wheel of
wires. The heart is koan, to share for secrets, and ever a mystery. We
pair like stockings, and misunderstood, as feral as ferrets. We love
with vision, to claim for blindly, as vigil as owls. I kiss a spine, and
pop a cork, to rescue dreams. We soar like eagles, to rest like asps,
a pair of jaguars. Ours is cryptic, a privy language, to strive for more.

They never heard—a storm of verbs, to pierce a chakra. It’s subtle
flights, for midnight blues, gazing at red ribbons. We laugh—to play
pretend, to sculpt a moment; where something unsaid, disrupts the
soul; in which is strife, a second to mend, to court the right verbs.
We laugh—to shed pretend, flicking through channels; where life
is anguish, in foreign countries, both far and near. The laughs are
halted, where nouns ensue, to unravel the chaos.     

Time was Brief

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