Beringei

Written Spring 2016.

An elephant,

Rare, caring, protective.

Gigantic, furious, destructive.

 

You were my plastic beach

I longed to witness you

Yet

Those observed only fake.

You were my glitter freeze

Glimmering before my eyes

Yet

Bitter, cold

Silent.

 

At first, I lay upon mounds

And mounds

of melancholy

2-D in your three dimensional world,

You, four dimensions in mine.

I notice not your eyes,

Filled with microscopic rhinestones,

Unprecedented, fallacious beauty.

I was your landfill,

Shoveling garbage on me

To cover

And forget.

 

Come again?

 

You ask as I shake your foundation,

Shifting your safe place simply to rock it.

We quarrel with no intentions,

Children,

toying with nine millimeters.

 

Yet, you dwelled,

To Binge on my faults,

you claim me Eastwood

More like Harry,

As it's clear you've slain the Scorpio

within yourself.

Foreigners,

Like myself,

Come to your green world

To realize every planet I touched

was corrupt.

Ominous.

Deceased.

 

Strange,

yet there are no ghosts here,

You die and lay behind only those rhinestones

In my mind,

watching as they sprint the lengths of my brain, and frostbite,

at my core,

laying with an intangible being

In my enormous crib.

The rut tells me Murray was not alone,

Frozen in time with no hope to see another day.

 

Come again?

 

You think yourself an elephant

When you swear Murdoc was God.

But while I'm god,

you're a Gorilla.

Author's Note

Prompt was to write a piece revolved around a musical artist, in which I used some of the lyrics and titles of songs from "Gorillaz".