#shangrixla

You were a desolate damsel mistaking disparities for doom; I was a gateway providing illustrated illumination.

dead grass, dead leaf, grief; sleepless sheets, so neat, repeat ‘til escheat release.

the cypress swaying rooted in silence like me poor necessity

I.

I fell apart like spring on your doorstep I sat like a statue forgotten I sang of colors retracted, refracted, and reframed that were birds along the way a path like a gaudy dream mosaic kaleidoscopes rendering my tongue obsolete II.

a statue like a gaudy dream mosaic kaleidoscopes that were birds rendering my tongue obsolete like I fell apart along the way retracted, refracted, and reframed a path like spring I sang of colors I sat on your doorstep forgotten III.

mosaic kaliedoscopes forgotten rendering my tongue obsolete like spring I fell along the way like a path apart I sat a statue on your doorstep I sang of colors that were birds retracted, refracted, and reframed like a gaudy dream IV.

like a gaudy dream a path on your doorstep like spring that were birds forgotten retracted, refracted, and reframed along the way I sang of colors like a statue rendering my tongue obsolete mosaic kaleidoscopes I sat apart I fell