Death Valley

Death Valley

Crush squeeze caress and kiss
you made a memory
And now it will tease
Your insides churn and mourn
Turn out the stuffing of your soul
Make believe your skin is whole

This curious jelly my mushy brain
This constant stream of weeping rain
This lovely night this redolent breeze
Oh and the memories made to order
To taunt, to tease, many a moon ago and so
silvery shoals of sand enfolded softly glow
Oh how well they know to sift and sieve
Every grain shall shift and burn and hiss
Haunt and dance and undulate
Cinematic panoramas for you
to contemplate

And I swear I can touch base with your mind
And minds are word worlds that soar free
Of embodied cage
Like swords of lightning
Or  wands of Mage,
But. ..
The midnight conch shell its magic murmers
Till celluloid stories melt away the page

And  maddening motions of muralist ecstasy
Freeze and thaw the minds image
I swear I have you to hold and then
Empty silence is my sinful wage.

And I crush and squeeze and caress and kiss
The shadows of fires that no longer is
And I linger and lave in its smoldering haze
in fenzied frenetic motion, a
pace of emotions that
tease and daze,
Langorous lava
Flowers
In the death valley
The decadence
Of all my decorous days.

(c) Amrita Valan 2015