two hearts

Technicolor sky

It was in those early days

when everything seemed technicolor.

there was that explosion;

only inward;

then nothing;

then something called time;

interspersed with more implosions;

always sudden

always mysterious

always unexpected

always crippling in affect

 

and then....

it is decades later

it seems i have awakened from

an empty black and white dream

and i am looking up

at the technicolor sky

and all i want

is to be back safe

in my black and white dream

 

because that technicolor sky

is too beautiful and blazing

so filled with possibilities

lost possibilities

forgotten possibilities

stolen possibilities

broken possibilities

 

something about that technicolor sky

wants to tear this wounded heart apart

wants to make me look at it

wants to make me believe

that it can be a possibility for me

 

but I stay here, safe here

in my black and white dream

waiting for the blessed end

and I’m ready for the time

that I’m called up there again

into that technicolor sky

 

and those endless possibilities

promised by the technicolor sky

will be for me

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(2013)