shadow swims lake

shadow swims lake

your ego pokes my dust
your protests make me scream
and laugh until i cry

your meter scolds my mind
jump again on my roots
and fear red ants climbing

we're all going nowhere
so stop trying to show me
the way that's too dark
unlit and decaying

lamp in a shrine
burns for you
not my oil
or my seed

beep beep bleep
sap in the sky

not my memory
not my choice
not the back
of my heart

help me mention something
and wrap clouds around
your moonlit grace
smiling and silently staring