She ruined you in the way
Water erodes rock
And time obscures memory.
She was the gentle fawn
That nestled within your contrived roots,
The soft fog
That embraced your unchanging peaks,
But went away
One season too soon.
Too soon,
She was the comet that shot past
And would only reappear in another lifetime,
The painted lady
That touched upon your concave petals,
And then took flight
One moment too soon.
She ruined you in the way
A woodpecker chips at trees
And watercolor makes inked lines run.
Too close,
You let her come too close,
Until you were tangent lines in an otherwise beautiful work of art.
Somebody had to go.
– so when she left,
She was ruined
In the way human breath
Makes pure water acidic,
And she ruined you
In the way acidic water
Wipes every detail
Off the face of an architectural masterpiece
Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 1:17 AM UTC
She ruined you in the way
Water erodes rock
And time obscures memory.
She was the gentle fawn
That nestled within your contrived roots,
The soft fog
That embraced your unchanging peaks,
But went away
One season too soon.
Too soon,
She was the comet that shot past
And would only reappear in another lifetime,
The painted lady
That touched upon your concave petals,
And then took flight
One moment too soon.
She ruined you in the way
A woodpecker chips at trees
And watercolor makes inked lines run.
Too close,
You let her come too close,
Until you were tangent lines in an otherwise beautiful work of art.
Somebody had to go.
– so when she left,
She was ruined
In the way human breath
Makes pure water acidic,
And she ruined you
In the way acidic water
Wipes every detail
Off the face of an architectural masterpiece
For the times it just doesn't work out.
* The painted lady is a butterfly. :)
Sort of a partner piece to In The Clouds (Without You):
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1598554/in-the-clouds-without-you/
