i never created it,
it became me and in a deeper
than usual menu of paralysis
i broke the lifted petals into
even more brilliant pieces.
uncertainty calms our demise
spread over in thin layers
of insomnia;
the pointed windows
to sex remains open closed and
open; in that, again,
a mural.
i am a human on a mountain
waiting for our humans
waiting for the same breath.
cross-legged and turned
to ice rather than my
beatless heart.
smoke of our fires
have killed us and in
our 9th life we are still
not home.
bodies are discriminating into
longer arms and shorter souls
but we never chased the rain
away;
we never once told the rain
to stop breathing.
we sacrificed and
died a dry talented
lie of a life with pink lips
and 6th senses.