shed that shell
translucently
lacquered
by childhood
that insect
fluttering behind
the ivory
bars of your ribcage
was once buried
under funerary mosses
of a fallen oak tree
three hundred years
of aged silence
basking in it's demise
saying
"I stretched
to the heavens
but they scurried away
every night of every day"
Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 10:04 AM UTC
shed that shell
translucently
lacquered
by childhood
that insect
fluttering behind
the ivory
bars of your ribcage
was once buried
under funerary mosses
of a fallen oak tree
three hundred years
of aged silence
basking in it's demise
saying
"I stretched
to the heavens
but they scurried away
every night of every day"
