Climb from your dark cave
Where cramped corners force...

My mother's shadow haunts the hallway wall
Draping over pictures where our relatives stand...

The puddles by my window
softly shiver in the wind...

Darling, listen
To my strings humming...

I slip quietly from conversations
to taste the lonely air outside...

The darkness shivers with rain
And light splits the sky in two...

I live in a vessel
But I'm not my home...

You smile and the world melts
In soft arrays of peach and blue...

My skin's like an accordion
With pale indents all around...

Your fingers wander up my spine
Piercing through hazy nightmares...

Terror caressing my spine
A frightening buzz in my mind...

As soft as smoke, the fire came
trailing through the daffodils...