Thursday, January 21, 2016

If poetry was my mother

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I used to color portraits of you, 
in yellow, 
marigolds blossoming after winter, 
you brought me to life. 

I used to cling towards your warmth, 
red, 
flicked
the pit in my stomach, hungry, 
I fed off your ink that spilled, 
like cool cool water in my heat
drowned myself in your coolness,
your coolness, 
catharsis, 
I am always heat. Heat.
I am red, shot temperated, shot steam, 
you took care of me. 

But Mother theres a famine in my mind, 
It is hot. It is hot. 
You can no longer quench it.