Hymns For the Dead Dancer
Please me for once.
Give me deluging discussions
About the wonderful, ponderous pits
Of worry I have for our world.
Or about deprived poor people who
Dance whenever it rains. Then die
Laughing at anyone
Who falls for feelings.
I believed
I would find pulses
Jump fearlessly through
Your dying body.
Excitement would paint
Your skin.
With the strength of dinner-time grace,
And the divine touch from your god,
You could possibly enjoy
A smile from childish folly.
I wanted a blooming expression.
You would float, failli across a marley floor.
Your body was a hurricane
Dancing through a small-town,
Destroying every parish it pleases.
I begged for blushes that day
We ran rebellious
Down a basement bathroom,
And touched for fun.
Tempered every piece of anatomy
We had. Lost
In the slowest six minutes of my life,
Creating sin out of ourselves,
I thought I heard air.
A breath of contempt.
A sigh for peace.
A prayer for hope.
A white flag of submission.
I thought I heard
A Human.
I am
Looking at your grave.
Your lavish grave.
Between us is the saddest six feet
Of dirt, of distance.
I am
Belting hymns above
Your dead body,
The rhythms of redemption,
The arias of the unrequited.
You need to know
The feeling of losing
All the sounds
In your resurrected throat.
I am nothing
But blasphemy
When I breathe
Through a dry, holy note.
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