Billions of stars hovering above,
reflections dancing upon black waves,
coalescing heavens and ocean into one.
A world wrapped in stillness;
cradled between Pacific swells;
rising, falling gently like an endless lullaby.
A dark shape glides through the luminescent water,
huge flukes rising in a soft arch under the moonlight,
a blunt head surfacing as if to say good-bye,
before sliding beneath ripples,
to disappear into the deep blue void.
The Earth was burning
The air resonating with otherworldly booms
Clouds, dark and diffuse rising,
their opaque contours expanding
to block out the sun
And under the dense veil of amber fumes
trees blazed in violent violet flames
rivers of molten lava
snaked down barren mountains ranges
hissing,
roaring,
plunging into the boiling seas
And all around the children of the Underworld
Watched.
Stood quietly.
Silent shadows amid the billows of scarlet storm
A dark room,
hushed,
and airless,
a vacuous face,
blank,
featureless,
waiting
hunger to be painted with life,
puzzle pieces of color,
neon lights vibrant in dark city streets,
wide blue oceans,
golden suns and silver moons,
skies dense with swirls of dark purple,
and stormy greys,
rainbows trapped and rung dry,
every color,
every shade,
every hue,
seized,
captured,
imprisoned to paint a new face
a spell of sunshine
a fleeting glance of light
a filtered ray of dusty yellow
spilling on a lonely face
a blue sky
an almost promise
a golden whisper
syllables of summer
open eyes and open hearts
touching hands across space
white clouds
soft smiles
a silent field of blue irises
swaying in a quiet breeze
voices drift
red flowers spill color
dark crimson
on souls that love
in midsummer nights
The faceless dancer
draped in endless black velvet
a shadow in a falling night
catching crumpled stars with pale fingers
a woman, a body, a wingless angel
dancing in the mist of moonlight
the fading colors of winter
the blurring outlines of forgotten cities
full of empty houses, empty air and empty hearts
as broken screams fall into faceless death
Inside blue dreams are drowning cities
frayed with shadows that stretch huge
in unclear moonlight
skeletons ride through flooded alleys
luminescent in the charcoal cities
decaying buildings tower above
the black waves
a mother’s voice like splintering glass
echoes shrill in the emptiness
at every corner shattered windows
and dead colors fester
an underground darkness rose
swallowing life in decades of shadows
an ageless rippling night
Soldiers drift
on the outskirts
of a broken planet
quiet shadows
in a gathering dust
their splintered bodies
swaying
as velvet nights falls
and their voices
laced in song
tint the purple horizon
in streaks of scarlet
that bleed to permeate
every sky in deep red
burning the rhythms
of war in windless hearts
if you break
I will break with you
Crimson blood
will drip
from our veins
bruises
will burn
on both our bodies
open wounds
will cry
in unison
Black tears
will stain
pale skin and gold
every scream
every scar
every death
I will hold your hand
as we drown
I will hold your hand
and never let you die alone.
Somewhere
in the core
of nowhere
Blue roses dance
in silent shadows
and sapphire souls
cry in hollow
emptiness
