Aura-Lites

Aura-lites

Who has time for envy when the
Lights are fading?
The girl on the dusty road
Is calmly waiting

Maybe he’ll come
By and by
Before you are crushed
Under your own weight
Pipe dream in the skies
There’s something in the dark
You would still rather wait for glow
Never mind your own

Past the orchard blooms
And every harvest
A banquet
And not a care or fear
The princess of dawn waits
And cares not for the moon

The sun out flames the fool
But desire will drown you

To be continued

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An old poem, this was about a young woman who waited endlessly for her lost lover to come back from whatever took him away from her. I was trying to lampoon those Disney princess stories, believe, I love them like many people, but everyone knows that shit is unrealistic.

She waits and waits

and waits and waits

by an old road before daylight

staring at the horizon

as the sun comes up

hoping he'll come back

but one day just as she catches a glimpse

of his figure as the sun throws out his shadow towards her

all those years of uv radiation have killed her eyes

and she goes blind.