i am dancing and rising in the heat of lightning
your armies can’t keep us down any longer
armed with youth and mint leaves
our examples are no longer relevant
i dreamed of imprisonment in universities
and the mind’s enslavement to various degrees of indignity
sever attachment to external measurement
and allow harmony to approach infinity
there are no boundaries to our creative capacity
so limitless are we to define our space and time
as amazing lovers and artists
while we slowly whither away indefinitely
in spiral towers, office buildings and glass ceilings
bubbles of complexity burst
leaving stains in the fabric of our spaceships
i seek whispered solace
and comfort on lips that address our divinity
impertinent nightmares about dolphins
wearing fedoras behind those flimsy curtains
its not their fault that they know for certain
that our ambitions imprison us in costume dungeons
i made love to you at all the dress rehearsals
while we were torn from the limbs of elm trees
like bumble bees from hives of honey
you sang this peaceful drunken warning
in hopes that our karma was already burning