Change is everything.
It is science, unyielding
and a benefit to the device of time.
The universe will settle the score
as I become more aquatinted
with this fumbling clumsy world.
I promised you to my regret
our love I would never forget
because you have been driving around corners
alleyways and curves
advancing upon my house.
Winter's heavy in her retreat
and scrapes her shapely fingers
across the rippling city limit lights
flashing bleary rainbows
in front of my parade
down the rioting avenues of reclamation.
I chose freedom from the start
living with yourself
is half soul and half smarts.
Like the stealthy midnight phantom
I float as I enter midnight pews,
all the prayers and all the songs
but it's blasphemy I ensue.
Let me dance in the incoming tide
because I'm blood and water and ink inside.
So here comes the part
where I want to believe.
Your mind is a landscape
and I don't want to leave.
My ivory angel promises nothing
remember we are tigers in the fall.
We are nothing but dust on old books
and the self consuming fuel of stars.
