Rock City by Aimee LaFon

termite hill

Listen- to the relentless pour of tears.          I wonder how the clouds feel as

My murky red body melts                               Shifting stones beneath me.

In showers of forgiveness.                              I cannot forgive-

We forge a pact between blue and green    But orange tears a cave in beyond these

                                                 Mists that fog my womb.  

You who believe- I yield to this-                    Give way to the serpent-tongue boughs-

Consider my gifts. I am the lover                  Of blindness. The visions of what

You lost when you forgot to love                   Yourself. I am waiting-

Acceptance is a garden,                                 A corpse with dwindling color

Paired so perfectly, but forgetful.                 In secondary schemes of sentience,

The labor pangs that brought you here-      Run deeper than the blood in these vales,

                                                                             But they

Never fruited.

I cannot erase myself.                                       You must do that for me.

Only then will I see that             – mud-              Is your penance to me.

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