softly across bodies

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  Quite far away as we all know now
oceans and seas walk softly across bodies…

        Books that we read and were read
to us as children and what we recall with our wide eyes within our minds;
    blatant realism that stands up to screaming and vinyl flooring…
    movie effects, arguing,
           spilt coffee and cracking chairs with rusted steel legs through drywall.

  Walk softly
across bodies.


    When yesterday you heard of a sixteen year old; they were born in ninety-one.
And you realize in the mirror or scratched surface of a burnt cd,
that you do not look even as you did last year.  

        You think that ninety-one should be only six or seven years ago.
  You think of a movie you saw recently, it was not long ago for you
but she hadn’t reached puberty yet and now she’s quite developed.


   And yesterday is gone to twirl in the wind; brown leaves on a golden autumn day,
They are quite dead and only to be moved by only what does not exist.  
Think of a beauty associated, but it’s all a whisper nevertheless.  
               Those deafening wails, anguish and stress that pinched your brain,

    …and of course everything is gone the very next minute.  


  Quite far away as we all know now
oceans and seas walk softly across bodies…



Look upwards and sing.  See yourself in the glistening mercury,  
     the surreal echoes of water’s surface from beneath.
  You float below, drift and list.
  
  glide and your hair swims like a gypsy’s dance above you.

The sun’s rays kiss onto your pale hands the play of shadow’s children.
     Oh, should you only hear a laughter ringing through this creamy silence;

  Your skin is soft and subaqueous, and oh, with mocking joy they jump and frolic,
roll and tumble with giggles to alight from these shadows within you, visions,
     tiny dresses with flowers, pigtails and shiny black shoes with straps, coveralls, mud, grass stains, dandelions, green leaves, fuzzy caterpillars that walk through wrinkles…






Ascend to darkness as deeper you slip…
               watch the water’s soft underbelly,
    its mercury twinkle and fade,


               and remember this.















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