I sit on the doorstep
the view unchanged, and still unchanging
while sharp clouds of champagne filling the air
though the golden rays of the sun still linger.
Over my head, strains of music join the fumes
rising to meet the evening horizon
and in a celebration made too soon
we were in the daylight, saving time.
The same surroundings, yet different people,
and the same people in different surroundings.
Strangers I had known all my life
crowd the foyer of my home.
Voices coax me inside.
Politely, I turn my ear away,
watching the brilliant sun dip to join her majestic brother
and leave me in the dark.
The cold seeps its way into my bones
and the starless stratosphere mocks the tremors of my body
branches sway in every direction but mine
exposing me in the madness of night.
I enter the door
an invisible pariah.
Betrayed only by the sugar-tipped daggers made of words
piercing and surrounding my frame.
As I bleed quicksilver
my only comfort
is that I’ll soon be gone
not gone far
but far enough
to join the stars
in another sky.
the view unchanged, and still unchanging
while sharp clouds of champagne filling the air
though the golden rays of the sun still linger.
Over my head, strains of music join the fumes
rising to meet the evening horizon
and in a celebration made too soon
we were in the daylight, saving time.
The same surroundings, yet different people,
and the same people in different surroundings.
Strangers I had known all my life
crowd the foyer of my home.
Voices coax me inside.
Politely, I turn my ear away,
watching the brilliant sun dip to join her majestic brother
and leave me in the dark.
The cold seeps its way into my bones
and the starless stratosphere mocks the tremors of my body
branches sway in every direction but mine
exposing me in the madness of night.
I enter the door
an invisible pariah.
Betrayed only by the sugar-tipped daggers made of words
piercing and surrounding my frame.
As I bleed quicksilver
my only comfort
is that I’ll soon be gone
not gone far
but far enough
to join the stars
in another sky.