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July 20, 2008
A GUILTY PLANET IN REPOSE by John Grey
I lie with my head in your lap
as the earth lies with its head in the lap
of the night
and elsewhere there is a brightness
you can't see
like the guilty grin that would have
come over my face
had I another face on the side
looking away from you
and of course there is ray confession
an orbit of a kind,
words circling the worst of what you can make of them
looking for a way in
to cling to you to make sound seem like peace
I am holding my restlessness in like the earth does
I am spinning through your flesh
even as I keep my bones so still
expecting you to digest what I am saying to you
like the day does heat and light
eventually you just say be quiet be still
but you cannot make it sound like
be victorious
outside the hours move on as if there
is a destination somewhere
that isn't always when they are
Posted by Overlord at July 20, 2008 10:54 AM
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