BLACK-OUT

give me your tears to
Weep.
wash the numb
Stakes in my arteries;
pumping me. sweeping
waves over
my sandcastle limbs.
they would cease to
live,
if they left me.
Faces drying in color and
crisp. tints in powder and
cream. crush me dead,
into roadside leaves
We are all the same.

bags of line and boned
Ivory; grinding and
Aching your engines. on
tar black fresh rain
tracks.
Roads and pavemets,
heavy with gloom.
Eating my footsteps.
Stealing the heartbeat out of my shoes.
When cars raced me faster, faster,
faster; and Your fume clouds made
my lungs
empty.
Synthetic air smelt good.

She's crying in her sleep now.
Mommy says there will be a
black-out.
don't worry Mommy.
I'm scared of the dark too.