lights
spotlights
across my face
i’m looking down
and when a ray of light lingers
i look up and
flash
i feel the light hit
the part of my eyes that change colors
flash
and it’s gone
lights alternating with shadows
colorful lights creating
dots across my face
then the outline of a fence
the outline of a chair
the outline of a blade of grass
and a river streaming through open land
a fury of rain drops descending
onto already saturated pavement
an aching in my heart and belly
some would say a fire
I wouldn’t know they meant
i would look with questioning eyes
curious eyes
pondering brow
i’m thinking
is what the expression tells you
i’m telling you how to read me
but i’m a little old school and i can’t give it all away just like that
and then your done with me?
no see
all signs point to yes!
yes, it’s a trip
go down to the ground
and you’d see gravel the same as when you looked to the sky
but me?
i’m at this nearly empty club
dancing with myself until others join me
and river could drink from the
fountain of tears
that roll down
onto the aching heart
when times get hard
because water knows which way to go
and that i only cry when i have to
but if there were another option to give up something deeper
i’d want to take it
if it meant that i could let go
and the lights would glitter
across my face and my eyes
in the darkness
wondering
watching
waiting
as the time rolls slowly to a halt
and all you see is a sky you can touch
soft as velvet
soft like a feather
soft like the brush of a cheek
hand to the speaker rockin bass
cuz music’s palpable
i look at my hand and it’s like i dipped it in liquid metallic golden shimmers
nod my head to a somber lyric and there it is
return to gentility
because tomorrow is full of flowers
and 15 suns in an arc
creating simultaneous sunsets and sunrises
peace
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