Rained Out
A hazelnut breeze awakens us
To another day in the show no one signed up for
From an accidental scream
Or selfish architects of love
Rained out
Silver skies that block the sun
Do others cry when the shine reappears
To break a perfect aesthetic of gloom?
Rained out
The cancellation of a party no one wanted
Light of pocket and of mind
To forever repeat the same aesthetic
Kiss the sky
Yet another day passes as before
Nothing to review as the dark rises
An eternal tally of the same hours
Kiss the sky
Rain washes away what has stood strong
A husk of promise shambling about
Crooked of back and empty of stomach
Where is the motivation?
A feast laid before me rots
As the effort to consume would kill me
Before I could get the first bolus down
Where is the motivation?
My oval stones propel me
Gazing at the hell I left behind
Pushing back endless branches ahead
Rotten of flesh and of mind
The dark shine sends my heart aflutter
A princess of the moon kisses me sweetly
And where her lips were, my spirit sloughs
Repelled with a wielded stone
I await my sun-crowned prince
To wrap me in his embrace again
To live in gray instead of grave
Time is a construct
And yet I cannot build more
To replace that which was wasted
By a selfish plaguebearer
So I gaze at me from next to me
Features smooth and eroded
Desire to write rained out
By the selfish world I never asked to be part of.
Copyright © Derek Chos | Year Posted 2020
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