I am ready to have it inked on me
Forever and ever and to the next life.The gesture of a million words.
An emblem of every scream and smile.
A permanent mark of all that was, is, will or could be.
I will carry it on my sleeve
Stronger than a heart, stronger than a brain
A synthesis of the two and heightened.
It will carry me to mars in a desk chair,
And it will fly me to Italy in 1983
While I lounge in my old home, a dog purring beside me.
She will take me to the end of the world and back,
To the beginning of time and explain all that happened in-between.
It will solve all my quandaries and create more.
It will save me and destroy me all in one go.
And there it shall stay.
Perched atop my elbow, caressing my upper arm.
Until I chose to jump into it by jumping out.
It is everything and nothing,
Yet it means everything, not nothing.
It is Tolstoy, Dickens, Austen and me.
If you chose to dive in,
touch the fine lines,
The slender stroke that calculate and justify the universe in its whole.
You will die while alive and feel the most.
You will have lived a thousand lives.
All the love,
Scarlett in the sky (with diamonds)
beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteI love this scar! you have a way with words
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