#1538 - seeing as far as the dark

1538

5.77

17.iii.24

seeing as far as the dark

 

once we were so much like the others

 

curled under wing

creeping to heights

 

a scratch the same

we had skin

 

we too heaped the leaves

 

as love as fear

 

teeth!

paint slapping

 

all this for whim

 

scratched up a name

 

and can you imagine

the sun shone so

 

there wasn’t what anyone called knowing

and yet there wasn’t a doubt

 

their voices much as ours were then

 

it wasn’t a question of feel this or tell

 

before the box of tissues

still this soulful howl

 

before there was this ‘I’

or Mozart, Shakespeare

any hero

 

we were much the same

 

a scratch

hearts high

 

seeing as far as the dark