Razzmatazz

Dry twigs wrestle the wind 
Shadows burn on the ground 
Here I stand in the center 
And the world turns around 
With yellow leaves laughing 
White sand dyed brown
In Nameless nothingness 
I named a pronoun 
All of me
All of me
At the bottom of this sea
Sand dunes shrunk to seashell 
Like past framed into memory 

I watch dazed morning 
Walk drunk upon the shore
Where my footsteps on the sand 
Leave footprints no more
As if all of my life 
Was a mirage from the start
A mirror holding together 
A man falling apart 

All of me
All of me
At the bottom of this sea
In the sky a sun wrinkled
And stars breaking free
Am I drowning 
Am I drowning 
Should I breathe this darkness and lay
As a dead man in a dying womb being fed everyday 
The same old desires 
The same old silver songs 
The same old praise and promises
That nothing would go wrong

And only if only
I could no longer be here
Be a past that never happened 
And a future always near
But never coming together 
With the rhythm of our heart
An end that is unending 
A beginning that never did start
You and me, you and me
The Sand and the sea
Away forever 
Our little infinity 

The edges of the world 
Like pages from a play
A Recurring razzmatazz 
Occurring everyday 
The blue’s beats
Jarring jazz
And ballads on the way 
Razzmatazz, razzmatazz 
As Liquored lovers say
“You be thought and I the mind 
To reminisce and remind
That love is not litmus
To be tested everyday 
Let it flower, let it grow
Be careful what you sow
For the soil takes it all
Your flight and your fall
And it’s the way of the crowd
To take as truth what is loud 
While our love is all silence 
Strong sans the violence 
So take care of the petals 
They are flesh and not metal
And do not look for reflection 
Till the water; it has settled”

Dry twigs wrestle the wind 
Shadows burn on the ground 
Here I stand at the edge 
And the world is not round 
Black leaves moan 
Under heels; trodden down
In Nameless nothingness 
I named a pronoun 
All of me
All of me
At the bottom of this sea
Falling nowhere
With two skies above me 
All of me
All of me
At the bottom of this sea
Fading in the distance
Once man now memory