It should be the most desired sight of all
the person whom you hope to live and die
so, this fire feels like love against our skin
we ramble on, in stasis,
caught ablaze and smoke
fills our lungs. There are sirens too loud
and too few to do any rescuing.
Kiss me you, fool.
Before the sky envelops us,
there's a mammoth of an alien
peaking through the sky's cracks,
tentacles grabbing.
No mercy.
There are no words,
for stars littering the sky
at daylight, and there's no use
in semantics for what unravels
in front of us.
But mathematics and optics,
equations letting sight pierce
through time. We are gorgeous as
we gasp for air, our life forces divided,
and allotted to some place distant.
What would our ancestors say?
Too proud to hike up death's skirt
and steal a look. Isn't this what we are?
Hungry.
Would they be proud
or would we be considered fools
to think we are untouchable?
Why not let our lips spark like
the bolts igniting the sky,
why not resort ourselves to ghosts
and haunt each other's great relatives
Shouldn't we give in
and behave as if
we're the last of our kind?
Jan 13, 2021
Jan 13, 2021 at 12:58 AM UTC
It should be the most desired sight of all
the person whom you hope to live and die
so, this fire feels like love against our skin
we ramble on, in stasis,
caught ablaze and smoke
fills our lungs. There are sirens too loud
and too few to do any rescuing.
Kiss me you, fool.
Before the sky envelops us,
there's a mammoth of an alien
peaking through the sky's cracks,
tentacles grabbing.
No mercy.
There are no words,
for stars littering the sky
at daylight, and there's no use
in semantics for what unravels
in front of us.
But mathematics and optics,
equations letting sight pierce
through time. We are gorgeous as
we gasp for air, our life forces divided,
and allotted to some place distant.
What would our ancestors say?
Too proud to hike up death's skirt
and steal a look. Isn't this what we are?
Hungry.
Would they be proud
or would we be considered fools
to think we are untouchable?
Why not let our lips spark like
the bolts igniting the sky,
why not resort ourselves to ghosts
and haunt each other's great relatives
Shouldn't we give in
and behave as if
we're the last of our kind?
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