Fifteen Flares

evetodawn 09/14/19

“Burning cities and napalm skies, 15 flares inside those ocean eyes”

-Billie Eilish

1. Maybe I saw you in one of those dreams where the moon blurs shadows over everything and pastes the beauty into your memory. But it was a little too quiet of a beauty for me. That’s why you were there, a loud presence despite speaking no words

2. I noticed how your gaze drew horizons until they met mine. …I wasn’t aware before of how much a paradise could thrive inside you. Did you lock me in it, within those moments?

3. Those eyes… just spark up memories that circle the room like dancers. But even if it ignites me I’ll still choose to walk in

4. Even if I find this place heaven, you may not believe it. You’ll say it’s a city rolling on the ground. Whoever taught you honesty taught well, but I can never see what you see.

5. Then again, think of how I’ve never been a repeat of anything else, unless all people are one and you were on the outside looking at us in amusement

6. Unless that’s ion, I don’t think you climbed to the highest branch of happiness yet. Why should you trust in the dream I might be to you?

7. If there is someone beyond what I’m hazily seeing in those magical oceans, then please. Speak, even if that means a tsunami crashes upon my heart

8. Silence. Sometimes it’s enough words. Your eyes are merciless in their stories

9. I’ll still listen in this garden of joy. My paradise, your disaster

10. I wish we could change it though, if it replaces those burning fires in you with stars. Was this all a mistake you made? Does that include me…?

11. Parts of this life cannot help but bear a halo of ashes

12. This is true for the worlds you lost me in as well. It was a good kind of abandonment, but not a view I wanted to see. The secrets of your soul that were meant to be kept

13. Your eyes are a nightmare flying around silently, calling itself a dream

14. Before mine crash from the inside, lift me up like light gray air, not weighed by devastation and fog

15. I can dream in my own worlds, captivated by yours still, but seeing the devastation on the outside

Thank you for reading!! ^^