Blue and red swirls in a still grassy block You were the one who needed me and never said it or even knew it but you needed me the most. I found you, could have been anybody, I left you too. I'm sorry.
You dreamt of leaping out of your pond and into a wall, out the window into the river where you would have taken all comers and won. But no one knows a ninja is a ninja and you retreated into a grassy corner to vibrate in time to hum with the deep knowledge of this mystery.
You were curled up upside down, though underwater there is no right side up you were a spiral in the iron red leaves and your eyes moved in your head and when you got scared you made bubble nests.
You were my friend and where are you now? It's only an illusion of time that says then you were and now you are not. You are blue and red swirls, triumphantly tattered fins, a few pale scales on your face from the time when things got to you
and I couldn't sleep when your water was bad, and my dreams were full of overcrowded fish tanks and fish flopping on the floor, fish turning to birds and flying away.
MERCEDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteto polo,
ReplyDeletemy beta who died when I was traveling:
Blue and red swirls in a still grassy block
You were the one who needed me
and never said it
or even knew it
but you needed me the most.
I found you,
could have been anybody,
I left you too.
I'm sorry.
You dreamt of leaping out of your pond
and into a wall,
out the window
into the river
where you would have taken all comers
and won.
But no one knows a ninja is a ninja
and you retreated into a grassy corner
to vibrate in time
to hum with the deep knowledge of this mystery.
You were curled up upside down,
though underwater there is no right side up
you were a spiral in the iron red leaves
and your eyes moved in your head
and when you got scared you made bubble nests.
You were my friend and where are you now?
It's only an illusion of time
that says then you were
and now you are not.
You are blue and red swirls,
triumphantly tattered fins,
a few pale scales on your face
from the time when things got to you
and I couldn't sleep when your water was bad,
and my dreams were full of overcrowded fish tanks
and fish flopping on the floor,
fish turning to birds and flying away.