Heart of Crystalline — poem

Her drip creeps down cavern walls…

A “friend” whose heart went cold and hard

There’s a sob-sob-sobbing

And a throb-throb-throbbing

Bobbing through her crystal brain

Say it’s pain, but it’s not near

Her drip creeps down cavern walls

With hair so full and a shape so fine

I catch her, reaching from the rear …

I call her Crystalline

Now Crystalline was born a wretched soul

One that all hearts hath she stole

I see what I reach to and claim to see

A jewel — a ghoul — in hazy dreams of thee

Far away off my kindred line

Come with me now! It’s family time

Though what you say is hardly familiar

A storm that brews, a starving flat

Your famine made, this day I rue

The acrylic birth of Crystalline

Crystals growing in her spine, her spleen

A heart so sharp, it makes lean the solid darts

I pried your eyes and begged for repentance

To let me go and set free my friend thence

A friend I lost in you, Crystalline

But all I found was a precious stone

Thrown

Nothing more for me to drop, so

The day breaks, and

Stop

A bad dream in caves melts away —

And the light of day buries away —

What this beauty’s hard heart has shone

Crystals

Now I smile and romp

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