Beyond the Shine

Men lined up to fall down these stairs willingly, falling over each other to fall first and laugh last as each victim learns from burns burning incessantly, unforgiving and fragile I toed this line and peered the edge this fools ledge draws crowds like glitzty carnival amusements Her cotton candy lips and roller coaster curves disturb my calm and reason, leaving every rational action a far off place I forget exists Curls sway tracing her face lively she brushes them aside gracefully always smiling when she speaks Apprehensive, stepping past piles of slain suitors and pretenders carrying my worth without pretense and braggadocio I'll seek this grail and sense this sweet ambrosia Spying her demise from the inside attacking the fortification with intellect bypassing the fornication until our threads are woven like skilled artisans tapestries tap into me...fill and drink listen and think...talk and flow back naturally capture me with the allures unseen to the corpses I stepped past to find you