stay gold

[asyouretold]

my favorite question to
break a thin silence:
if you could be anywhere -
where would you be?

was returned the favor,
an hour ago.
finally a chance to be
on the other end
of the question mark,
i,

well, i think -
a patch of grass, fresh with dew
is where my back would like
to lie.
i would be
a silent spectator
in the hide and seek stars play
between the clouds

my white shirt dyed
with green fingerprints,

i would lose myself in the small, ordinary
realities
that my personal marks -
question, exclamation or otherwise,
would be drowned
in nature's spill of ink

and seventeen,
i would be. in mind,
in soul.