gaia_lenox

I open my eyes 
to light 
that bursts through glass 

shattering 
window panes and 
waterfalls 

of blonde hair 
sewn into my 
eyelashes 

I open my eyes 

I hope when they take flight 
the birds in the cherry tree 
think of me too 

with their wings made of sunlight 
and snow 
and coal painted fethers 

and the sky falling together 

I fell
through water 
and into you 

everything was backwards 
my name written upside down 
under your barely there finger nails 

my mouth 
glued into a perfect 
smile 

There's this light 
that sits on top of a hill 
in a town you've never been to 

that casts broken 
shadows over houses 
you will never call home 

and there's a street 

its 6:05 
and my fingers 
are fumbling over one another 
trying to untangle
the knots in my hair 

I sit in the place 
between perfection 
and chaos 
on the corner of main street