Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Asunder

The leaves turned brown 
And I saturated into black 
Split in two  
In the backyard of my mind 
The chirping memories stung each neuron 
The view was Mongolia 
I would show you if our minds could trade photographic thoughts 
But you'll just have to settle for your imagination 
Or the first image when you look
on google 
The view was vast and I even 
Recalled a scent of wild flowery love 
And I, in an ascent, grew dizzy and empty of oxygen trekking that mountain of memories 
See it's tall
And it talks to me 
And I cry into it 
Each drop making it grow 
Larger 
I keep feeding it 
I don't know how to stop
Then I found myself on memory Lane 
Trying to hitch a ride back 
to an arcane time 
But no one stopped for me
Because there was no one but me 
I trekked it, each mile a different scenery 
And then an empty house, 
haunted by abrupt departures and half ass promises
Roaming around trying to break free 
The blanket of road folded up and into me 
I too became a memory 
A Lane 
What was my name? 
Which season am I?
Am I ocean or sky?
None, but only on the cusp of each blue 
A hazy horizon
Split in two 
And the sun turned and the moon looked away 
And the tides kept tugging at her to pay attention 
And the sky asked me for a kiss
But I didn't know how to 
I was gold I was now old 
I was a spy of a lost soul 
I was three hundred shades of blue 
I was a washed out hue
I wasn't Mongolia though that was my view 
I liked to look at the marigolds
And pretend that nothing changed 
Not a season not a day into night 
Not a hint of foliage, not a dawn 
not a twilight 
And pretend that I was different 
But I was split in two 
Turning into someone I'd soon meet 
The other, she'd go off somewhere 
Into a dusty dawn of fallen stars 
Their lights still flickering 
Banking on burnt out hopes 
I pray for rain 
To wash away stains of disdain 
Me and that new person I'd be 
Would like just to be a memory 
A breeze a pulsar 
A nebula 
A dancing aurora 
Always on the brink of getting away 
And as ephemeral as blind love 

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