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Capricorn Crush
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Night Rain laminates languid pores of my skin,
Surrounding my tattered smile.
An abacus counts the mementos cradled
In the crevice of my turgid vessel.
Pessimism you enshrined in me wriggles within my gut,
And moans in octaves that poison my hope like quicksilver.
Mercury residue of memories are the warm and the sour of whiskey,
A viscous batter of love and hate.
Sandstone eyes shiver iridescent under a sheet of slick salt,
Oppressed by the wiping of mascara-matted eyelashes,
Defiant to my unblushing plywood façade.
Simple mischance turned not-so-simple,
A nicotined addiction to the hallucinogen
In his kiss,
But not in his tell.
A savior-faire in consonance of everything
I deemed impossible in my quandary,
Held high on a pedestal-turned-scaffold,
The neck of my aspirations became
Relaxed with a massage and then broken with a noose.
His bonsai heart was dwarfed within its realm,
But it once held the zeal to pollinate my love,
Encouraged it to expand until it was stretched so thin over my bones,
It shattered at the words of
This renegade who abandoned my heart
To wander vagrant in dry desert sands that made its veins crack.
His kamikaze crushed me with a bushel of hectoring insults
Xeroxed into a thousand copies and thrown
Like blades at my core.
My euphoria was jounced from me like the helium in a balloon
At the mercy of a pinprick.
I abdicated the thousand photographed
Memories engraved in me like handprints in cement.
I carved them out of me with a serrated knife,
Leaving scars soft and pure like peach skins,
But numb and expecting to the future feeling
Of being left alone at the hands of a capricious zodiac.
