Walking down the street;
I had just slipped into something comfortable.
ironic
I saw your head between
the horizon and the sidewalk,
and smiled at your lips
silhouetted.
you didn't turn.
i didn't want you too.
you didn't.
why didn't you turn?
suddenly the rain hit me like
paint.
i imagined the cityscape drowned
in the paint rain.
It filled the transparent drops of gray
with the sky,
and your eyes,
and that look on your face
surfaces striking simutaniously
and spreading reflected light into my eyes,
like a sunset.
the spilling of
the sky,
your eyes,
the look on your face
i took cover in a man hole.
the shaft of illumination
from above
making me
half a man
the paint rain still came down
dripping into my
privacy.
i stayed there;
not due
to apathy, anger
or you.
but just so i could see
the paint rain fall
i drowned like the city in the paint rain.
drenched in color.
soaked.
i drowned in the paint rain,
that wasn't gray today
i drowned like the city
in the sky,
in your eyes,
i drowned in that look on your face
Copyright: Bennett Tyler