Namaste

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.