the time between reincarnations of a housefly

Dec 02, 2003 17:11

i have seen so many of these lives

have eaten from the shit of you and yours

have spanked myself stupid against

the colorless picture plate of glass

flapping my wings faster than heart-beats

wanting desperately to find the other side

i wanted to smell the breeze that sent

fallen autumn leaves kamikaze into my face

this false face of crystal

i madly craved a drink

from the beads of rain that tried to break in

but they too were scattered about

twisting a prism rainbow of that star

that star oh that wretched star

that wilts the leaves

of a flower that uses it's rays for food

it must be poisoned gold

it's ransom for a fools quest

most certainly a brown leather death

that death that befell a beautiful rose

placed in the window to remember

and then discarded

once the vampire star had suckled from it's

fragile skin and bones

all that it could take

and so to it's predecessors

and often as i beat these wings

is as often as i have left

and returned

to this postcard life

and still each time i will beat myself

to break through

until i can find all of the beauty

that this window protects

and still one hundred times a day

i may fail

and i may resort to dining on shit

again

but once i will make it through and see

and that once will be enough

that i may never return again

but be forced to explain to the angels

and god

everything that i saw
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