We carry multitudes, unbounded As time moves - steady Little treasure boxes appear for storage, then the locks Hiding bits of essence here and there
Dancing light facets in rainbow hues Pragmatically sealed away Buried deep like we never had them Heart numbed, mind squared into logic moving forward at a tremendous cost, intentions blurring Your promises became whispers in the wind That I've somehow allowed, accepted
Only to reach in the dark one day, hopeless, searching
Barrels of blotched grapes wasting, film forming, milky from too much a i r Then sitting, ugly to look at, pungent waste with no plans to go anywhere without s p i l l i n g exhaustion l i n g e r s, heavy shroud, weighted a crushing ton, chain and anchor Sink it a l l to the ocean floor
From pirate ships to private slips to pyre spit
W i l d hands find a dusty box Running wooly skin pads against a small lock a click of release Hushed, To find dying stars, fading like sun beaten washi paper you mourn a loss, filigree blades etched you don’t yet understand The dark grows more opaque the cold sets in, a blessed formality seeping tannins into other barrels of French oak Signed Burgundy, Pinot noir I whispered, shipped...
And your eyes glowed Seething black ink boring into mine
Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole 