haunting my skin
how daring of you to emerge today,
in light that soothes and tells me stories of days that will trump the night and all of its
darkness
sweet darkness--I remember, how it waned and flickered to the moonlight and seduced you and I into its paradoxical
lively death
killing the light seemingly on the surface then waiting as I mourned the extinction of all warmth inside, forgetting what it's like
to feel the sunlight I stole from yesterday
arrested in the future for my past's missteps in dancing with you
you, who flashed your colours across every damn piece of my world's canvas, promising beauty and love and warmth and reflected light from all of your surfaces
but you rusted and shriveled up
you misstepped
allowing the icy blankets to take over and wipe out everything I held dear just moments before in the sun
Night paled in comparison to the work you did yourself and claimed all the glory in my dedication to your illusion of change
I fought you
I stepped aside
I denied the darkness its pull and pushed so Light could take over, even in the Moon's dominion
it was beautiful
I felt beautiful
I felt free
free to forget to feel
something until something emptied into seconds ticking away
until you became mass enough to touch me and push back the decay, the change, the colours that warn of the impending frigid void
I could feel your breath today
reminding me of whose music moves me
blindly through the days into nights and tomorrows
breathing you in
but how do I stop my feet and hold my breath for too long without stumbling
how do I stand still, with your seductive destructive promises of feeling beauty in dying green, watching as fire and rust and illusory lovely landscapes distract me, dizzying me until you win, able to stop the music
until you sigh
and wait for me to Fall
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