Lily of the Nile
While you were tying blue flowers to the clot of my hair I moved about impatiently As if it didn't matter Meandering like a little girl I swiveled through the gazing trees Oblivious to the thread that knotted up our dreams It was a dark night when the oceans called I was cradled in a bubble you had just breathed with life Floating across our jittering timeline It landed half shot into a mountain peak What a pity, what a pity. The bubble that carried purity was rendered bleak. So when I fell, it took less than a moment You lit a fire to cook your meat I fired my parachute to pull me away But the voracious flames charred my feet What was meat, was I meat You often whispered, you liked me raw. You emerged like the mellow shades of morning Resting on a street bench Hands stretched on your sides Glancing, smiling And I swam in like a sea of autu...