Saturday, 1 April 2017

Tangled Tales

What tangled tales these words weave
With your cotton eyes and dyes of dusk
Sunsets, moonlight, bangled hands, 
And centuries of wait for another moment 
To arrive 

What tangled tales these words weave
With your purple dreams and silks of skin
Memories, wishes, unthinking kisses,
And wistful songs that last all night for you 
Who are gone 

Words cross those skies sometimes at night
And lay down beside those lakes on mars
They ask me if my pages will fill
All of the Blue-god's emptiness within

Words burn with fires from afar, 
Neither light, nor ashes, no space, nor traces
Of someone who had brought down my world
From faraway stars into unending lines

And when silence comes, 
it dies; Many deaths 
as I weave tangled tales 
Of a joy that lived once 

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