Write in Blood ... Dip in Hope ....

You spend light years detailing your world
& another day polishing the pearls
You turn around for a moment but
All your kindgom crumbles at the sight of a girl

You stand still & let wander your gaze
You recollect all the lines you erased
You make a killing yet still unwilling
You migrate to wishful meadows to graze

& what a life does she promise?
What infinite mounds of felicity ...
Where you may sip the drink of bliss
What reverence you dream of; what velocity!

You write in blood & dip in hope
Your hands inept, your mind eloped
You drag the world all to her feet
You feel her slowly envelope

She looks to and then looks away
A passing word, she tends to say
You think her diamond, she judges you coal
She blossoms into your goddess of dismay

& the castles that you raised
Come crashing down in this cavalcade
Such is love, dear fragile self
& such is hell through which you must wade

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Poem from my as yet unpublished book "Dirty Street-lites"