Reflections

remakes my heart into something

less willing to break, or to judge,

and I am thankful for it. A

color not unlike walking chest

deep in the ocean and seeking

beautiful clouds and thinking I

will be back. Dreaming with the sky.

Please stop lying to me. A sky

like the shining skin of berries,

maybe my obvious lack of

composure here. The color, which

is it, much needed honesty

or simply running away? They

say promises are meant to be

broken. Oh the color like no

walls between us. That would be my

wish. If only, of the sky, so

blue, edible, bell-shaped, azure,

cobalt, you name it, Oxford and

cyan, O the slender shafts of 

sunbeams suggesting reflections

somewhere. The color of the sky

today like the perfect dancer

in complete control  of the gifts

of natural grace and timeless

storytelling. The color like

no one can kill it, pollute it

or ruin it in any known way

forever. But I know you are

going to be doing something

terrible with wind and rain soon. 

Bonus poem:

How Not to Fire a Gun by Darryl Price

 

They always want you to pay attention

to their drooling evil crap, but I've seen

something else worth seeing in your open

eyes today. They want you to be afraid to die,

but I've never been more alive in your

arms than now. I'm already late for joining up

 

with their nationalistic crews anyway,

why start now believing in something I'm

never going to be for in this

lifetime? I'm telling you I'm okay just

watching you walk in the sun of each day.

It's everything I dreamed of, your body

 

making perfect sense of every new breeze,

every wandering cloud. Universal

language. I understand it in my head

immediately. They want you to just

blindly put your head into their money bin

traps, but you were made to wear an ocean

 

of living stars in your hair, dance under

the biggest brightest full moon ever recorded. They tell me

it's plain stupid to care, but I still do,

each time I hear you say my name. I'm

telling you now I'd rather listen to

your breathing than learn how to fire any gun.