Words of affirmation
I showed you a piece of my writing
A sliver of myself on a page
And you told me how amazing it was
And I felt myself preening
Like a scarlet macaw
Exploding into a symphony of pigments
With a hunger to begin another piece anew
Visions of The Future
If I try staring at the future for long
My eyes feel as though they are melting
To know what is coming next
like Icarus when he grazed the sun
The more I look the more it alludes me
my happiness burned by a gaseous orb of starlight
A schism between the three parts of me
Like Orpheus unable to prevent himself
My patience is hanging by a single thread
from stealing a marveling glance at Eurydice
If I do not unclench the thread will snap
Only to see her be whisked away by his very eyes
The future tantalizes me so deeply that I am
Unable to know where the soil begins
The fire starting in the present
And her ashes in the end
