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"This Naked Dance"



This naked dance
before the tenuous 
judgement of sentences
the company of words 
from all the silent voices 
seated in the front rows 
of this our dark audience 

the jury of lost lovers
wanting their heroes 

to hear songs stolen
delivered by angels 
swallowed by demons
their notes played in
affidavits continuous
in the courts of denial
these habits contagious 

lifted by suede fingertips
to Munch mouth

a cavernous silence 
waiting for some 
sound of contrition
from the you 
without numbers
now free pool playing 
piano keys

reversing the tune 
of our journey

smyth sewing stitches 
is your gaol 
opening memories in 
the industrial room
there are no windows
to see the blue sky
of you once were 

some kind of happy
before the damage

I’ll walk through
all your mirrors
like a ghost 
that haunts you forever 
to find where 
the heart of you split 
and scattered 

in the bleak corridors
of your prisons

forgiveness 
comes and goes
in silent waves 
back into the shores 
and certainties of me
then is dragged out 
tangled up to the mast with you

in the hangman’s rope
submerging 

in the undertow
with the tide of our life
to where the things
with sharp teeth 
wait for us
we are not fat enough 
with life yet to be seen 

as delicious 
there is something missing

within us 
we are standing still 
we are asphyxiated 
sucked to the sides of life we are
pilot fish in the corridors 
of our phantom penitentiary
not prescient enough

to evolve fully our flavours
to become complete

so we continue to dance naked
in deeper waters

pushing envelopes
before the tenuous 
judgement of sentences
the company of words 
from all the silent voices 
seated in the front rows 
of this, our invisible
dark audience 

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)




"Come as You Are" / Emilie Simone (Nirvana cover)
https://youtu.be/3So59E6NxSg
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