View From My Window
Falling Star
Tell me tearing teresita what was it
without the foolish pride of a football field?
Do you absorb the simple praise as mere
abstraction?
Do you bend over in a field
of daisies to retrieve a simple flower? I am
not born to be broken; I am not what living sees.
I cannot imagine my life as a continuous thousand
flames, but I would like to become the
candle. Do you breathe the carnival into you,
and reflect upon the smell of cotton candy?
This may be your
discarded fruit, collected in a candy dish;
the church will not accept a mere ration to get into
heaven.
The dawn comes over the eastern hills; it is
not my foe to find the shade. I am wary; where
is life of summer that begins on the other side
of the falling star?
(Note: work in progress.)
without the foolish pride of a football field?
Do you absorb the simple praise as mere
abstraction?
Do you bend over in a field
of daisies to retrieve a simple flower? I am
not born to be broken; I am not what living sees.
I cannot imagine my life as a continuous thousand
flames, but I would like to become the
candle. Do you breathe the carnival into you,
and reflect upon the smell of cotton candy?
This may be your
discarded fruit, collected in a candy dish;
the church will not accept a mere ration to get into
heaven.
The dawn comes over the eastern hills; it is
not my foe to find the shade. I am wary; where
is life of summer that begins on the other side
of the falling star?
(Note: work in progress.)
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