Orange

I drank down the poison of the drink
just to stay beside you
Feigning my sickness
To make a stand with loose rocking horse heels
 Stumbling over my own convictions

An old  shanty canvas
Wheezing at the heart
Protesting our foul crimes
against Her..against Him...
Cried out again in silence demonstration
Feathers bleeding from its sides

We liked pretending
But Ignorance did not become us

The morning hours
 mere seconds at pass
but enraptured
In Tango manic bliss
we danced the night away
with ritualistic passion
and youthful determination

Your mouth here
And my hand there

Til our limbs quaked with possession

Sunlight shattering
the freeze frame of deception
A cancer awoke
 festering and mutating from with inn
I could not stay beside you
You were a sickness
Worse then the poison

We were pretending
I with my pride
You with your eyes lashed with sand
I could not say good bye

The fool and the hanged man on parade

Love was red
In its splendor and truth

But we were dirty coated in lies
In the tainted shade of Orange

Reviews

[Dillon Cotter]

Very Talented Lindsey!

-Will

[nostal]

Great, very visual, and sort of pleasing to the brain,
I just really liked the poem as a whole.