Bright light in my eyes
Half bent and untrue 
Cornea, iris 
Kaleidoscope, blue

The picture prismatic
Each piece, we called love
Cut off, automatic
And missing half of

My pinhole camera
Your world, upside down
My image obscura
Your straight line made round

    I thought we were one
    You thought we were more
    But I made us two
    While you made us four
    
    Your heart a laser
    White heat cutting through
    A glowing line tracer
    Burns beautiful, true

To red horizon
Our rescue flare flew
One sun was rising
You, blinded (me too)

*

Cataract lens
And ossified heart
Our line of sight ends
Dark shores far apart

Refracted and burning
The signal lamp dies
Reflected and turning
Back into dim eyes

But seven year itches
Are nothing to us
Eight years of riches
Thirteen of just us

    I thought we were one
    You knew we were more
    When I made us two
    While you made us four
    
    Your heart, a laser
    One light cutting two
    Your sight, my one love
    Burns everything new

Red clouds now clearing
Our sons blazing through
It's our song we're hearing
You seeing (me, too)





2021