Hissing cars
Swishing trucks
Rumbling bikes
Life is a highway
Really?
Combusting cylinders
Pumping pistons
Turning crankshaft
Spinning flywheel
Engaging transmission
Motoring drive
Tranferring power
Rolling tires
Hissing
Swishing
Rumbling
Crash and burn
Life goes on
Slowing down
inside
slowly
Whirling wheels
spokes run backwards
Stillness still
repels
Imagination still
tells stories
draining fuel cells
Rearrange
what matters
on the open top
of time
Wasting it
contradicts
the flywheel in my mind
But it’s slowing
and the only fear left standing
may be of wheels
rolling on again
Stress thorn.
Your smile
successfully
beguiles
a victim
willingly impaled
struggling weakly
to escape
runs it deeper
till it fades
and leaves a lasting scar
What was that for?
Perhaps I understand
love’s power
a little more
So blind
this mind
cannot retain a fraction
of the truth explained
So light my way
Spirit at my side
Leave it to me, you say
and I’ll try
Faltering steps in silvery shoes
Through pools of moonlight on the floor,
Eyes agleam with blue china hues,
As midnight chimes and night birds soar.
Hands caress the vibrant silk,
Static charges tickle palms;
Lips of cherry, skin like milk,
A doll who dreams, a charm that charms.
Adrift, the fantasy that flows
And spins the flywheel in her head,
For instants she tries on the clothes
And dreams the lives she might have led.
A ballerina, graceful, slight,
Pirouetting at the bar,
A sultry temptress of the night,
A nurse, a witch, a movie star.
A maiden fair in ancient times,
A princess in a golden tower,
The queen of hearts in nursery rhymes,
A bride before her bridal shower.
Cleopatra of the Nile,
My fair lady at the races,
A model with a radiant smile,
Mona Lisa's face of faces.
She dreams her dreams and prays her prayers
Until the dawn light starts to creep,
Before the day, ascends the stairs
And dreams her dreams once more in sleep.
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