The Lone Cat

The phoenix intends to die before the mirror, 
its vanity endless, blackberry eyes sharpened by glowing flame
ruthlessly chasing a forever love
a creature of Narcissus
As it has no lover, no Echo to call it back,

They sit on apple-ruby seats, special emblems on chests
Dessert is served! Molten towers of pale sunshine, glazed with deep caramel
are brought up, set meticulously, with simpering looks

I walk along these Halls and I think about how untarnished these little Birds and Statues and oddities are; they are all each consumed in their own Fantasies, vying for a lovely Lime-Green Berry when there’s a Bloodred one up much higher.

Outside, the sky is silent,
a pot of freshly spilled ink
the artist flusteredly dabs at his ruined canvas,
leaving a spot of greyish-pale, the moon
 

we are made up of atoms of unfairness, deceptionatoms upon atoms upon nothing upon everythinghow can we say that we are wondrous and all-knowing? 

In the ripeness of the morning

You asked, what are we but 
purple skies, bruised and hidden
behind tasteless wine?

I did not answer you then,
being swayed by the clashing
air, bitter seeds and peels crushed