Some words

unless

Had a whole dream once
full of nothing else
A bottomless pit,
Eyes bulged out
across it,
neck stretched
over it.

A whole lie I know of
fell into it
once;
and never came back.

therefore

Three white lines
joining exactly,
all the angles equal.

Inside it--
symmetrical
cross legged,
one finger up,
expounding a simple fact
sits Nobody.

A perfect confined space;
not one star
shines in.

Enough

No use, we'll never catch it.
it's just ahead,
a puff
of flying light.

Want it! want it!
Wake up at night
crying for it,
walk around all day
needing it.
till one day
it's there.
Not needed anymore
not even wanted.

Look at it without a smile.
Turn away.

Never

Should never have done it, never.
Should never have left that country
where I was queen entirely.
Treacherous thaws betrayed me.

That land of I-will-never
gleaming with snow and silence
suited me with its iceblink,
its blue eyes fixed as mirrors.

Set on my peak, I queened it.
It as the spring that took me,
drowning in warmer waters
out to the lands of sometimes.

Here in the lands of sometimes
I stretched out hands lamenting,
but I'm a queen no longer,
melted my snows and glaciers.

They were so strong, so solid,
crystal as tears long frozen.
Here I'm at risk, half drowning,
wanting my season, winter.

It will return and find me
caught in a depth of water,
freezing unseen in ice-depths,
never again to queen it,

to sit on my peak unmoving
the sceptre cold in my fingers,
my eyes on the blue-eyed glacier.
Should never have left it, never.

Ah but I had to leave it.
No one can live there always,
the frost-bound queen of Never.
Once the blood moves, the flood moves,

The thaw begins, the ice-peaks
crumble, dissolve to river,
in which I swim or founder
throught the warm lands of sometimes;

swim, drown, but now am human.
Change is my true condition,
to take and give and promise,
to fight and fail and alter.

I aim towards Forever,
but that is no one's country,
till in perhaps one moment, dying, I'll recognise it;

Those peaks not ice but sunlit
from sources past my knowing,
its beauty of completion
The end of being human.

Fragile things

Take everything I feel,
and wrap it up in steel wool, bubble wrap and cotton buds, just because
fragile things can break
And time we have to take to figure out
what our hearts are all about.
Is just too short these days,
Everythings too fast anyways...

I want you to know
Your eyes show me a thousand miles
and one of your smiles can linger on with me for all my afternoon
Take this hand, open and true and trust in things that are mine
like my heart
like my soul
Take me home.
I want you to know
Your hands will take me to the moon
and one of your hellos can brighten the stormiest of days
Its just too short these days,
Everything's too fast now anyways...

The weekend is here and it's all for nothing,
like my heart
like my soul
Take me home

"later that night she has a terrible dream... She wakes up to her falling out of the sky, crashing through the roof and landing in some guys lounge chair."