Hope eludes you
through each day.

And quietly you sleep.

The day is harsh.
The night is rest.

And quietly you sleep.

I think of you.
Send my hope.

And quietly you sleep.

Im seeing you,
resting far away.

And quietly you sleep.

The world can't touch you,
the one I adore.

And quietly you sleep.

Just so close
to perfect

a blossom of feathers
rainbow-brilliant

Beyond the rationalization
Beyond her deep beauty
Beyond her child-soul
Beyond the out-of-nowhere

Beyond her defenses
I crawl, restoring
her hope
her peace
her safety

The peril to myself
is inconsequential.

All I do is use
to pass time
until the Sun comes up
with her waking
smile.

There are places
within you
that have not grown
that are still a part of you
that you've had to hide
for so long.

Purity
Innocence
Care
Safety

can still exist
in your world.

I don't even know who
you are, yet.

But I need you
here
to bring light back
into this technicolor starvation.

Like a devil, she is everywhere
inside my marrow.
Like an angel, she blinds
inside my mind.

What do I even make of this?

Hold me together.
I'll break you apart.

Let me pick up
your pieces
put them together
reform
mi muñeca.

Oh, the being of,
"I'm homesick."
and home
is a person.

All from that angle,
collarbones and
shades of Heaven
splattered with the ink
of Hell,
were a man may pilgrimage
dying lost and breaking
only to collapse
like a star
falling in and resting
head on chest.