Bound for Corrosion
Miles of walking with this string around my finger
dug purple trenches in places that intended to swell for you
Gravity versus levity decided
So I released you to drifting
Balloon shrieks deflated the air-
sky held her breath
But those bloodless air carcasses!
They took everything that was or could have been
Those floating heartbeats! Tied to nowhere,
They took what I had hoped for and used it
to sanitize the horizon
to hush my flow of inner crimson warming
So this current sky - free of color is my own undoing
no streaks no shadows no return
I asked for what would come of wanting
I merged with the precipice, for this:
Fuse me, the magma in my heart,
To the fire core that birthed this rock
Where once upon a time
Lava loved forth like a fluid firework
Like an unreasonable river
Only to eventually cool solid.
Early on, and up from the core
We are bound for corrosion
