Unpluck my petals why dont you
Whilst I watch you over there
And I’ll catch a glance of the sun
set right in front of me
Being so careful
Not to stare
You could pour me a drink
While I attempt to untie my tongue
You could
Catch me
Before it ripens my words
Catch me
Before those words tease my throat
Catch me
Before all thoughts begin to poise and sting
The compression of my lungs
Oh -
I know I come off armoured
and I know I come off cold
I’ll wear pretences of untouchable
Playing the part of somebody bold
But inside, I’m a mere child
A real fiend for affection
Though I act as if nothing phases me
Really,
I’m just hungry for your attention
And I feel like it’s been
Such a long tiresome night
I toss
and I turn
Aurora pricked her finger
but I inhaled your caramel
and burned
Because it all went silent
When you dominated my vision
through splintered glass, those unexpected encounters fluidly graced the horizon
Of the delicate window panes of
my eyelash
and it was there where you painted my sighs
Now so black and so blue
There are no ways of saying
What’s making me breathe
I think it could be you
Although a bull and a ram drew closer
From separation of tidal seas
"In this life you have to be chosen,
Mi amor"
and the stars I thought had aligned
The catch of the day was always that
The one that you adore
Ruled by water, was her
Never me
Still, I’ll keep the thread of you inside my palm
The one that began etching in the month of June
Stubborn as I am I admit there’s another lesson to be learnt
Before reemerging from my spiralling mind
and epiphanic cocoon
No
I am not misshapen
It’s just, well
You are somebody else’s gift
And no matter how many times I try
"You cannot enter a locked door,
When you are not the key that fits"
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