Sleep

Textures of red and blue
Kaleidoscope eyes of evergreen colours
Visions of shimmering silver ties
Bands of gold and purple, magenta
The love in my eyes flows out slowly

An abyss of time envelopes us
We never knew the answer to life
Faraway magic lands were imagined
People in love, birds on fire
Sapphire bullets streaking through the air
The sunbathed stairs wandering to the moon

The flower turns its neck
Looks at the sky instead
Orion lying low over the east
Myriad voices streaming through the water
Silver waves, colder water
The professor lies, mouth open

The light picks up broken pieces
Glass on the floor
Bleeding eyes
Running through alien civilisations
Caught in a turmoil of selfish feelings
Left alone
Left to die
Left so that you can sink the boy

Drowning voices
I need to forget this life
And become

Lying on a bed of uncomfortable silences
I close my eyes