After Life Services

Beautiful canvas beautiful skin
arrested smiles 
burgeoning love 
seeping into me

oh, come on, karma talk
like a french lover:

"La vie est une fleur dont l'amour est le miel."

| Life is a flower of which love is the honey
and it is making me feel ill and cloudy. |

Is this what we lovers get?  Is this what lonely
hearts feel when we mix love with art?

Oh, come on, please.
Karma is not enough 
i gave it up for camera.

Remembering how i felt most intense pleasure
piercing my heart upon a figural stone shaped
as a monster's heart.

I messed objects with abstract thoughts
and lost myself which became more real.

and everything and every sense and every thought
tried to devour me within a black throat of fear
and it tried plainly ~~ i use to daydream at night
and paint colors in the darkest thoughts of my 
mind;  everything oh everywhere and everythis
and everythat |and it tried to eat me | 
i woke up believing i was right here now.

Where i threw colors within my head
where i drew deepest fears away 
when i was there when you cut me with
your words/i tried to say...i tried to say
tried to say....

Love is everywhere.

:: 07.07.2022 ::
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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