a lone blossom flutters
on whispered wings,
drifting peaceful
in watery skies
kissing lids
of solitary eyes,
glued shut with gum,
of stagnation
while serpents twist
in callous seas,
proclaiming reason
granted right
for broken promises
fingers tremble
liquid fears,
as broken nails and calluses
team antlike trails
on tearstained pillows
where shadows quiver
rarer roast of hearts in carve,
for baited hooks of flesh
feeding,
frenzied sharks in circle
momentary maladies of lucidity
meander shoals
of razor barnacles
leaching blood
to color coral
in half hued harbors of belief,
breached on reefs
leaving lovers damned
in salted graves,
where bloat rots float,
stuck in teeth
of starving scavengers
loss is little,
when men are monsters
stowing secrets carefully
in steamer trunks,
where memories collapse
under weight of oceans
and drifting petals





and much love~ Desire~*~





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