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Another Life (Free verse) by azntsarina
I walk into darkness like into cold water
Breathe it in and let it seep through my skin
And then let it rest, until it becomes part of me
The same temperature the same black
Through the morning into the day there is fog all around
And the lights change like they are blinking lazily
Green. Red
Red. Yellow
Surrounded by man-made suns
I want to be balaced like the fog
And most of the time I am
Except when foolish boys talk to me and then
My blood turns to gasoline
(give me a match so I can burn)
But only momentarily, so there are only bitter oily traces left
Floating in my system, making me hate them even more
(I will not be as low I will not be as low)
While they burn in fire
I will wander in those fields
These white fields filled with fog
In-between heaven and hell
They occasionally descend on this city
Trying to scribble out lines but everything has to rhyme and I don't and
nothing works
A limp body lying on the sofa maybe
In my past life I was incinerated in one of those mass graves in ovens
Backbones breaking as my corpse was dumped in
Skin stretching, trying to hold all this together, the insides with
blood vessles everywhere, organs flattened like a piece of schnitzel on
a chef's table. They tried to get information.
Maybe, a limb hanging out of the oven door
Spark! and
Bloodless lips burning with the death-fire
I'm afraid that one of these days I will wake up to see that I have been
dissected
By the one with whom I fell asleep
Maybe it would be for the better
None of them can measure up to what I left behind
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Posted: March 25, 2007 9:36 PM PDT; Last modified: March 25, 2007 9:36 PM PDT
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