Violet from my Petals

Yellow

Yellow like the lights behind my eyelids

Dancing there like memories of sunburns

Clean and bright with a smell like soap

In the shadows of childhood recollection

I found your ghost there waiting

Still tangible and opaque, so alive

Dusting the corners of my mind

Sweeping cobwebs from behind my eyes

I flew over you and you waived

Swimming in ferns and living in grass

What weighed me down lifted away

Antigravity and no real sense of time

Your words were like lobotomies

So I scraped away the cancer

It was black as tattoos on my left arm

Then you whispered that you'd be alright

I untied the string that kept you on earth

When I went back there you were gone

Asleep I wait for monuments of the past

Awake I know that things aren't as they were

Breaking Above the Ground

Roots reach down through dirt

They're attached to my spine

Stems break through ground

Petals reach toward sky

I'm curled tightly, safely

Under moss and forest life

Nourished by wet soil

It's in my lungs, I'm alive 

Tree branches die slowly

Leaves fall as my umbrella

Winter forces me to sleep

Deep inside the cold ground

My eyes open in Spring

Flowers pump blood to my heart

Birds wake me with voices

It's Earth's sweet alarm

Body uncurls and sprouts

Hands touch the clear air

Breaking above the ground

Earth grows its new layers

New skin burns in light

Tender from birth in the dark

The bright, newborn day

Welcomes with all of its warmth

The Crow

Outside the window

The crow begs me to fly

Over the city and 

Pressed against stars

The blackest of feathers

Overlapping the moon

Under the orbits

Of souls caught in time

Above the cold ocean

Hypnotizing me with waves

To a land where my heart

Is planted in earth

Before the sun wakes

Wings soften my fall

Into the city with

Lights burning bright

Ahead of violet dawn

My eyes give reflections

Glitter with the beauty 

Illuminating my mind

Back to the sky

The crow fades into black

As the moon surrenders

To daylight once more