ALIVE, TRANSPARENT, ON FIRE.

 

Yesterday I had an epiphany

while walking around blind…

That liquid heaviness

of unlived lives

clung to my skin,

soaking through

my mirrored eyes,

becoming solid

stone, metal, concrete

that I set on fire.

 

Diamonds are dangerous

things,

created from other things 

that are long since dead. 

 

Desire burns

in the air that

demands we have wings–

alive, transparent, and on fire.