Blazing fiery ribbons streaking the sky,
morphing hues of red and gold
I breathe a sultry sigh.

The glorious light of day,
melts into shimmering pinkish orange
toxic stress seeps away.

Splashing misty shades of mauve and grey...
painting my dreams
in a tangerine, scarlet display.

Magnificent gleam of blue violet
kissing the earth goodnight,
a smile lingers as I sleep in
black velvet twilight.


Written by D.Ann

Abba sits in the middle of my defects with me
and tweezers the splinters out of my brain.

I trace His fingertips tattooed in my heart
while He swims through my veins.

His healing touch breathes
His life-budding breath on my reviving smile.

The starry vault blazing the sky
burns the dust of history from my eyes
as liquid words pour like a cleansing waterfall!

And

with a sizzling pin *****, an avalanche of light
blinds the dense shadows of gloom...


Written by D.Ann

I killed the nightmare
fogging my eyes with ashy debris.
That creeping crawling darkness
slithering through my rib cage
chilling every vessel and clogging
every breath of a new dawn.
Grabbing it by the throat,
it thrashed and hissed as
its life blood dripped then gushed
under the squeezing pressure of my fist.
I killed my snaking nightmare
and the ****** thorns pricking my gasping heartbeats
melted into the carbonating sea...



Written by D.Ann

Why do we hammer fleshy souls
with remorse of lost moments?
Regrets ride raw and bleeding backs
like a sweaty saddle and we bemoan
choices made in yesterday's
disappearing tide.

We grasp, *****, chew glass till blood pours
then smash the mirror as
hollow eyes lost in fragments of time
fade to black,
yet still fighting to change the elusive past.

We plead; "can't we have a 'do over?'
Travel back and undo the clinging pain?

But a piercing shrill rattle in the
porous marrow,
the truth is carved and on display,
forever beyond our reach
are
second chances for yesterday...

Written by D.Ann