I’ve sat with Silence As she cast silhouettes Moving in the likes of Ballerinas across My hair.
I’ve moved with them too. That’s how I’ve come To know their names Or natures As such:
1) The one who sold her soul to the Devil For pennies and a dollar So her mother could Come off the Corner
2) The one who put Fireflies and Rainbows In mason jars and played make Believe with running fingers And a wounded Moon
3) The one whose only trace of a father is The bloodstain on the wall like a Family photo with X’s over The faces because he Destroyed more Than his own Soul
4) The one who strung sorrow to the ceiling To play its marionette with dancing Shadows weeping and frightfully Abandoned, hiding under A candle in shameful Bliss
5) The one who wandered though fields Of whispering epitaphs that Made nursery rhymes From the likes of Madness
6) The one who locked her heart in A vault within ashen walls and Wrote letters to stars that Wrote it’s not her fault She’s infinitesimally Small
I told myself I would never return To sleep To dream To surrender my mind to its own Devices Vices.
But here am I, Lord Swinging with the wind Under a purple tinged twilight Making friends with twisted tongues, and braided hearts slinking through the alley.
I’ve bore my heart like a cross, Carried it past moratorium Marching east for west Until my frantic feet Cease to move Me.