Smooth Sailing
Smooth Sailing
Delicate youth
Somewhere down the line
Is the spring of a bloom
Grown up to smell the fumes
Smooth sailing
True to form
A portrait framed
In cornflower wallpaper
Wild weeds
Broken skin
Shedding
Thin paper wings
Strange creatures
crawling within
Echos bouncing
Off the walls
Music and noise
Blocked doors
Locked and chained
The road
Leading to nowhere
But somewhere close
Familiar
Sharp
Under the nose
Carrying on
Turning against the tide
Polka dot eyes
Crystalline,round
Looking all about
We’ve got the night to cry
For the wrinkle in our eyes
Worn away
Crinkly and plasticized
A puff of smoke
Rough notes on the piano
Though not too much of a pain
Is dry against the grain
Gliding knives
Across the heart
A tease for torture
Wounds in the bloody rain
Marckincia Jean
Free verse
03/23/20
Copyright © Marckincia Jean | Year Posted 2020
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