I'll see you on the other side
of teenage years, when they subside
when you're calm and coalescent
adolescent, fluorescent
when your streams are bustling rivers
and your gaze no longer shivers
stripped of every crippling fear
that rekindles when I'm near
dreams a thousand midnights strong
will put our thoughts where they belong
I don't know where, I don't know when
I don't know how, but surely again
we'll be laughing at the days
of cliches and worthless praise
spoken by the passing strangers
that we used to fill our chambers
during nights of guilty choices
in the absence of our voices
for they chant in whispers only
that remind when we're most lonely
or maybe you've surrendered
and forgotten to remember
I carry still our banner proud
staring at the sun unbowed
waiting for your autumn clouds
to wash away the hungry crowd
perhaps I'll shrivel up and wither
over yonder, thither, hither
wherever stars will never rise
through the oceans of demise
watch to whom you show your pearls
and put their fingers in your curls
the way is rigged with walking corpses
like our minds with evil forces
that place you next to souls contrived
of those that make you less alive
touching them will give you plague
loving them will make you vague
they will spend the precious shine
that you had when you were mine
they'll return you mind-aborted
with a face of pain contorted
and you'll expect my fading aid
to forge your curls into a braid
to make you calm and worriless
in your time of decadence
but maybe I'll be gone by then
warming up another den
in a plate of feelings clad
by a dream I've never had.
©tensei
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