FLOWERS

a nice, quiet poem (to read with your cat)

And so the sun shines upon all things.
Washing over every piece missing from me.
My heart broken for every which way it all went wrong for God when we were unleashed.
Metal in my mouth, heat in my blood - I’m paralyzed as the life is leaving him…everyone around me in tears.

Now it’s Noah’s ark in my backyard.
Moonlight rains down on the dark water below, such sweet exposure.
While a stubborn ivory bird flaps its wings on the other side of time.
Now I only want to know the truth our lord hid away and escape.

A man once told me how he’d burn all the pain away.
We stood waiting around the fire warming us, I listened for a while as all life ceased.
Every worshipper that came and went before us came to mind.
…I remember welcoming the end oh so well too.

I’ll kiss your cheeks, show you my heart as it sits so still.
Perhaps you’ll smile.
I wish you’d tell me I could keep your hands forever.
And how maybe even you couldn’t live without me.