07-07-2021, 06:45 PM
From when I was in love -
one long lost
murky summer
I remember the pearls,
the bling, the crash, the kindling -
then dwindling
flame of love. O time,
great falsifier, who brings all things to dust,
even black Cleopatra,
arch eyed in her rage
and Troilus on the walls of Troy -
you bleed words out of me
like dirt from clothes,
against a life gathering layers of fat for the winter.
one long lost
murky summer
I remember the pearls,
the bling, the crash, the kindling -
then dwindling
flame of love. O time,
great falsifier, who brings all things to dust,
even black Cleopatra,
arch eyed in her rage
and Troilus on the walls of Troy -
you bleed words out of me
like dirt from clothes,
against a life gathering layers of fat for the winter.