gone by dawn

There you are. Simple Satan’s gambling my skin. Stray saviors painting white sheets red. It’s her prom in liquid eyes. Dancing like rain upon the missing glass in windows, it’s tomorrow already. Too late. Too soon. Wasn’t. Won’t be. Juggling those apples with so many missing fingers… won’t be tasting them at all, with all those bottomless baskets playing attorney to my death sentence.

I’m not a seed. I can’t grow it.

I’m not soil. I can’t nurture.

I’m just the weather that decides if either will matter.

Everything else is just the folly of circumstance. Long overcoats left without anything to hide. Naked hangers laughing off the clothes we’re in. The lottery of condition calling out numbers no one has picked. Warm legs on the carpet memorizing steps they’ll never dance with anyone else.

I’m a meal. Meant to be consumed.

Dirty dishes waiting to be licked. I’m an appetizer. Meant to accentuate the hunger that is there. High heels for the heart soften the curves of that ugly muscle… as if it has anywhere to run.

They were close. Junkyard’s dogs protesting. Drooling novels of touch. Gnawing. Discarding flesh, like aliens examining their discoveries. The universe laughing at us… because the glass is just us.

My fortune is that I’m lost.