She took the streetcar and desired to land on a new life
No more fear and regret from the lost past
The old should be buried in a deep end of dark forest
Ahead was hopeful sunshine carpeting across the field
Clear and Free
A boy made a pact with his old and tormented soul
led to believe the beauty was treasured in deep end of a dark forest
He stepped in, palpitated with some newfound truth
Dug in further, tangling roots started to wrap all over
Trapped, he was stuck with the darkest thought—
He deserved the suffers
Once a butterfly she wriggled out of his weaved cocoon of closeted nature
Danced through a world of colorful motions he dreamt and desired—
Beautiful patterns eventually faded. A diva painfully aged
haunted with hallucination
waiting for a net to fall upon
Ahead was a psychedelic path covered with flowers of forest
substance nurtured
Gave away to faceless strangers was an escape to both of them
But emotionless body heat felt lukewarm
like a tapered fire could only spark yet illuminate
Self hatred acted as fungi living off collapsed trunks
Oh how they just couldn’t understand those mad men!
Hitting bottom he decided to venture out to a new land
Determined, even if it took a naked self and infinite wounds
Not giving a damn about covers and consciousness, he wanted OUT
of circling vines of self pities and indulgences
He’d be the butterfly riding wind high and light
away from those misters Kowalski and Mitchell
She just rolled back to that muddy path within the woods
drunk as always; no more clean clothes
She was played out (but he didn’t)
Refusal could be the best source of strength
to discover that ultimate pasture
but she begged him to stay, always whispering eternal resentment at
the deep end of a dark forest
Years later when he took a streetcar from an open field
He spotted her wandering on the street
drunk as always
mind in the woods
A gossamer ghost en blanc with no history
but could always use some kindness from a stranger
He was not the one
He decided to put them all behind
The streetcar slowly yet gently cradled him to
the next destination
Clear and Free
