burning too fast
by panta rhei
Posted to Action Poetry on 2002-11-19 03:22:00
Parent message is 325454
it was you
your shadow
your pulse, your
pure essence of light
running through
my hidden veins
mirrored by my
never-done-with desert
by my silence
by the sky
in your name
it was you who
would fill me
it was you
you would spill here
and i would
seep through
the story of our
own burning stars
i would implode
explode
well out
from the world of
porous words, pop
out of corroded
daylight hours
love-eaten
light eaten
i burst
erupted too fast
showering flashes
falling dying light
into your
life
burnt out flurries
that marked
the firmament
of facts
again and again
i am hit
by these
flashes
echoes
from another
sky
i am hit as
i watch the
fallen stars
struggle
to crawl back
to me
to keep their promise
by breaking it