smells like gasoline - but the park
is sunny, rain and dark weather long gone
thus the wariness appears. gone.
a spark, in other places, a spark of love,
is fire, a good kind
and this time it was a bomb,
and falters she does, the clumsy
ballerina topples - lands on her face
with an audience slightly taken aback
when money was paid to see the finest.
alone by the cafe, a stranger to all
in a little town: the outcast stares at her with
red equates anger, red means love,
red has to be blood lust -
red can be romance, red is the color of roses
ask me not why the red sea churns,
how dense it is, dense could be stupid,
dense could mean the accumulation of all these
come to me, sweet and natural,
and i was just a boy - wanting to be
an adult.
i explored the world with rebellion,
for the expected seemed lifeless, boring,
banal: who's keeping the good stuff?
a man with gold buys a golden statue,
and ask the workers: is that not wonder?
but he already knows the answer,
for the blushing damsels are always going
pink when they brush past - like a canvas dripping
ink, rainbow colors splattering across the sky
it is true as you say, dear lilith
that you have done nothing
save being practical.
and i pour upon you the gravest of
judgement because of ideals
not proven, save faith.
let my voice be heard, for surely
this doubt, this reflection, this alternative
explanation - meets with a favored nod, a smile,
quite like love, when grace means keep your sins,
painted dolls tucked deep in a house
filled with dead flowers and weed.
today i heard a voice say, i had
only good intent - security, to feel alive,
then went out on a spree
to paint the town in what can only be described
as vandalism, the court ruled penalties.
vessels brush by spirits, unaware of these demi-gods,