William Greco Poet Free verse

I Watched You Eat Your Cotton Candy

I watched you slowly disappear
pacing restlessly back and forth
warbling off-key through the
woozy blackness of a day

I watched you glide upwards
through the slender keyholes
quivering and sun-cloaked
towards the edgeless seasons

I watched you unfurl with rapture
rummaging the vast firmament
ill-famed for your cinder face
corralled and vaulted

I watched you smile in epoxy
at every wake and burial
you made weather off your skin
mostly smooth and neon-colored

I watched you sink in every rivulet
amidst the mountain ridges
and your incandescent eyelashes
creeping upon the timid animals

I watched you blast off to nowhere
becoming a zero, a ransacked town
only a replica of your blank self
a free sacrifice to destroyers

I watched you eat your cotton candy
heading home to fictive horizons
your limbs so flabby and tired
your eyes full of dismissal

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FJ Thomas January 2, 2020 at 12:20 PM Sounds like a town where I once lived. How have you been William? William Greco January 4, 2020 at 1:28 PM what was the town's name? oh I've been busy, thanks for asking. not much time for writing, but I still write a short poem from time to time, mostly not publishing them anywhere...