I am
in amber glow, in wet cacoon
He is reborn
every moment is a chance to be new
But the tides that crash on this cosmic plane,
They drown, they breathe
I am awake but not lucid -
A victim to a story I did not tell -
A ghost in a graveyard
A dog in a basket
My heart on the table
You were destined to leave, I said
The autumn breeze cooling off our coffee -
I watch sunsets just so they burn a little bit

the stars and the static are the same
where pink clouds peel back like flesh
your frail fingers around my neck
there's a certain chaos in those eyes -
her dress up against my exposed waist
the stars and the static are the same
where blood rains for a thousand years
and the ashes of our ancestors blind our future -
I kissed her with the last breath I had

how many lips have you kissed since mine?
how many times of those did you think of me?
how many times did you wake up from dreams?
where we were together
and the air was still
our hands warm, and there's you -
getting everything you want,
and more.

It's been some time
Since I last saw you -
I wonder how you've been,
And if the thought of
What we had, and what went wrong
I wonder if you want me back
Or if it's all been gone - yeah
I still wonder about your dreams
If you've met them yet, or if you still pine for me -
I had a dream -
It was just you and I riverside
holding hands and clouds passing by
I could taste the air -
I could see the time stand silent -
Tall and forgiving and us, passing by it

Downward dog to plank
To Cobra downward dog to
Cobra to warrior 2 to downward dog
I'm as loyal as a dog
as conniving as the snake's heart
with a warrior's home sickness -
I miss what you were when you were asleep

i took everything
you said
literally - i took
your fiction for fact
as if
the sky were to fall I'd reach up
palms to push back to keep you
and i intact - but
fierce chills climb up my spine
when i hear her heart sink
our clock has struck midnight
as glass shatters across the floor -
the moon glows through windows
and this is a side of you
i have never seen before

the trees are weeping
for those fallen
once deeply rooted
we will all eventually leave
this place cold naked and afraid