The Chair Cares

What am I ....and Who!?
that this eternal flame will not go out...and stay OUT!?
the unadulterated everlasting blaze
flows from these
my poetic finger tips
in spirons of orange and red and blue ...flames of you
this river of our conflagration 
scars the OUR 
runs down my tresses
charts pathways ...forms canyons
incinerates and shapes
torches and carves...the psychic ALL walls
Canyons....of mercury and steely mir

a heroine, a hero ...and hell

why ??
Yesterday...was so innocent and so was I
if not for resting a palm upon a chair 
...a club stool in a little dark historic bar filled with small white lights and sweetest memories
...psychedelic indeed... a blood scent! 
I rested my hand only for a moment...but hearing your angry words 
of loss...as you turned on me
the river broke free of the damn
and the door mat in the hall where you first stood 
started laughing

I should have known there were toxic remembrances lurking on surfaces there 
the sticky atoms of recall ...I should have stayed away!

purest tears sprung instantly unbidden 
and deepest sadness dressed me in blue
swept away by atomites
and dripping with this immortal rainbow 
I am falling fall ing
staining 
the page of the universe 
but for just another day
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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February 2, 2018 at 9:02 AM
Seems like you are debating this in your mind, I hope you find your peace.. Great personal poem Ingrid...
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February 2, 2018 at 9:16 AM
Tis no debate...love is love but blissful peace= I need to return to now ~ indeed ( damn restored...composure, acceptance and sanity back intact- ;)
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