thanks for reading.
oh susan, your mother
made shivers up your spine
created you from the blanket ice
that she founded in the spare room
wrapped tight
oh, bound by time
dear body of mine,
couldn't you take these last few breaths
precisely in sync with the church's chimes
left somberly in your debt
forever until we'll have met
face to face in that forever place
you know, I was brought to life.
delivered and conceived at the same time
a cloud formed in her ovaries
brought alive by your memories
on a starry, cold night.
looking above the ice below
breathing in the old
breathing out my bones
one by one they crashed onto that boat
my mother was your first love
and my father your favorite book
i was born alive and your knees shook
the sea provided my eyes
my ears, hands, and eventual suicide
there was a symbol etched there
hidden beneath my graying hair
for an instant, everyone was listening
listening to the sounds of my birth
then the night shut off
and we continued on to planet earth
there are perks to being an everything
to be a bumblebee and your neighbor's tree
to be your sister and her scraped knee
to be the alter and the clergymen
to be everything and what could've been
wouldn't it be everything to be one of them?
oh, gloria
glorious golden moon high
resting on the tips and eges
of time and space!
truly all of the stars can respond
with a shine of their own
oh, how many free men did it take to reach your home?
oh, glorious golden moon high
deep, wonderful sea
how your ends justify your means
how you come on shore and swallow me
how you say how you will and how you are
goodnight to the deep sea lights and sharks
but what would happen if we became your blue?
it would not take long to conquer you
it would only take the time to find the who
dear little benny,
shrouded up in secrecy
told that the two eyes meet
burned alive by symmetry
would you want to be swallowed up by me?
keeping sense of your poetry
rendered blind by history
made by old bones of alchemy
filled up by ecstasy
the notions of narcotics
universe, intoxicant
church walls, infinite
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