Dreams Like Flowers

because i felt like it paint your words on silence

A City

Full to the brim

Cuts into the night sky

 

Like you never felt that

Rush of pain

Like perfection on your face

 

A stutter

A ruin

Pasted together with scraps of dead hair

 

Like I care

You never came to rescue me

Like you don’t remember

 

A wormhole

Through the rotten apples

Or space itself

 

Like maybe it was all a joke

A sick, sick joke

Like that wasn’t your name

 

A father

To my universe

Or a mother

 

Like Gods and goddesses fell

And crumpled as a newspaper

Like a sign

 

A stop sign

Symbolic of things I can’t quite recall

Poison or otherwise

 

Like you never wondered

How it tastes

Like you never wanted to die

 

A discovery

Because the world has edges

Everyone knows

 

Like I have a purpose

Like it matters

Like you forgot me long ago

Author's Note

Inspired by a picture of Sierra Casady that I love.

Reviews

[Everett DeValle]

Wow, no one has reviewed this wonderful poem...just breath taking poetry you wrote here. I Loved the metaphors used in your poem just brought grit, yet a touch of elegance to your wording.