The smoke levitating from the stucco walls
I’ve been here before, when the fire broke
Drenched amber fluids seeping by the woods
Castrated your mind, that one swoosh of air
The smoke kept climbing up the walls
In rose-colored tears : a malingering flimsy
My eyes cannot bear to me what you’ve done
To the me that came after, the ending
Crescendoing tremors baked inside my chest
I’d wish so terribly you’d understood
When the firemen came, in golden yellows
We should’ve enjoyed such helpful fellows
They yearned the way you yearned and hoped
All the malice in the world would soak up
Watered down, like a fish in and out of water
The fire came and went, flames up the walls
I’d wanted so badly, the desire that never left me
The fire never stopped burning
But they washed her suits and gloved hands
The departure of our saviors, a grace
We can no longer afford.
The burnt flesh of life; the stuccoed finally
Fall apart. Red smeared on every inch inside me.
