(no subject)
we were laughing and dancing around
the flames jumping from
the innocent crisping ground
and bathing in the heat
from the retired weathered couch
that once sat idle in my childhood home.
i carried a bottle half full of beer
and remembered another time
from my cleaner early years
and watched as that fabric arm
reached up and wiped away my tears
and they dried deep inside it's cushion.
kissing glass and sucking in my drink
with sparks and goblins and splinters
i retreat from the fire and start to think
and wish back what i have burned
and undo it all in a blink.
eyes open to show in the smoke and the ashes.
What's left behind? What's climbing toward the sky?
the flames jumping from
the innocent crisping ground
and bathing in the heat
from the retired weathered couch
that once sat idle in my childhood home.
i carried a bottle half full of beer
and remembered another time
from my cleaner early years
and watched as that fabric arm
reached up and wiped away my tears
and they dried deep inside it's cushion.
kissing glass and sucking in my drink
with sparks and goblins and splinters
i retreat from the fire and start to think
and wish back what i have burned
and undo it all in a blink.
eyes open to show in the smoke and the ashes.
What's left behind? What's climbing toward the sky?