Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset: Soon a New Day Will Dawn by Cleo Patra - HTML preview

FLY-LIES

Seismic waves of tears flooded my eyes

I slept on a bed of lies

Tremors shake each corner of my bleeding heart

You gave me a heartbreak tart

Blood-screams climbed out of my throat

I was on a twisted-thorn boat

Tsunami waves of pain slashed through my crystal-glass

soul

Holding on to a hope-straw pole

Thoughtless thoughts galloped through my

mashed-potato mind

Our ghost-love sealed in a coffee-grind

Tried to escape the cyclone-forest of questions

Our marriage-sledge got stuck halfway up the

Appalachians

Thorn birds cuddled in our bed

I choked on a black-red fish bread

I want to cut this porcelain heart with a dull dagger

You were a Hyena-bragger

Fly-lies swanked through my meltdown thoughts

You gave me a pathway filled with disappointments

We built our dreams in the Milky Way

The sky turned a dark grey