Hotel X

I watched the smoke rise slowly from your tired eyes
Two columns weaved a marble gateway to a starlit moon
And painfully you raised your stick and
Led me through with promises of paradise
Where nothing ever dies
It blossoms
I follow pacified
No preconceptions. Open-eyed
My faith worn on the shaky hand that's hanging to your ribbons
We walked across the crystal ocean, sheltered from the storm.
We were born inside a black light cavern.
Watched the red sky raining roman candles.
Washed our hands in amber.
We were married in the shade.

A shadow play was serenading adagio.
Then faded yellow. Grey. Green. Purple. Blue.

A rainbow whirlpool sucked us down
We tiptoed senseless underground
There was nothing we could hold except each other

You murmured your apologies.
I smothered you with sympathy.
We crawled, we shivered to the mirror.
Where you saw your shaky hand hang bravely.
To my ribbons.
And me, I watched my tired eyes slowly burning.
Slowly burning.
Slowly burning.
Slowly Burning.
Fade away.