Narcissus
Narcissus
Once upon a timelessness
after a re-occurring dream
awoke wired and restless
with a relentless curiosity.
An unlikely poster child
creature of terrible beauty
freed from its muted haze
fiery in spirit
its kaleidoscopic variations
protected with a cloak
of sea urchin spines.
shipwrecked and rejected
The shadow bleeds into the sea
old and uncharted.
Dreamlike oddities haunt
the un healed fractures
the barnacled ghosts.
Hidden in the wing
the mythical siren sings
evolving in splendid isolation.
A pause in the rhythm
agony frozen in a time.
When time doesn't matter
it's like being suspended in space
orbited by electric blue .
A mirror in the sky for reflection
but these eyes are blind
the dark and the light are joining hands
without destroying the larger balance.
Once mute mouths trying to speak the truth
of the unsettling similarities between
the saviors and the martyrs.
Trying to connect criminal to crime scene is an impossibility
within the city of an urban purgatory
like a museum stripped of its artifacts.
A soul transforms a falling star into a polished stone
written on it:
"man is condemned to be free"
within the tapestry of the
labyrinthine dream of a reality
of prisms and polarized light"
looking closer we see only our own reflection because
in the faces of our Gods
the sun only bows
to Narcissus.
Copyright © Lesley Kaplan | Year Posted 2009
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