Escalation

The glinting metal of lines in motion,

A foot two steps apart.

Slow creeping cycles,

Shadows grow,

And eat the shoes.

Then heart.

Hand on plastic rail.

This is all there is.

This climb.

This shit.

This curling trip,

Lazy artless lift. 

Your feet frozen in fear,

Electrically carried on.

Cogs in mechanisms,

Built on corpse owned land.  

A silver spoon in your pocket.

Elitist whips across your back.

You starve for shiny metals,

And the latest iPhone app. 

Puppet child,

Strings in claws - 

Trademark manicure.

Bourgeois bit,

Saddled debt.

Contract sofa bliss. 

Born from dust,

Coughed through life.

Asthmatic wheezing drone.

Settled from your parents death - 

Forged in broken homes.

You move,

You grow,

You stay the same. 

Step-by-step breakdown. 

Then one at a time you're lain to rest.

Tetris.

Robot urn. 

Spectrum

You waited softly,

In the blue,

Indigo azure. 

You saved your breaths;

Pink faced,

Through sweat -

Desperate to get more. 

Purple knuckles,

Gripped the rain.

Danced softly 'til the sun.

The blue returned.

The colors swirled.

Screaming,

Empty,

Numb.

Your cheeks a hue,

Of grassy plains.

Peeling citrus lids.

Bloody sockets.

Vein spread skin.

Pulsating, baron ribs. 

Violent fury, 

Normalcy - 

Phenomenally queer.

The bizarre shift,

Refraction,

Bliss.

'Am I alone up here?'

The clouds of doubt,

That smother me,

When you fog through my sky. 

Writhe in every shade of day -

And bring my fears to light. 

Optically,

You elude me.

Even when you're clear.

At your end there lies no gold.

Just beauty.

Liquid -

Air. 

Head

It started small,

Puppy kisses,

Lapping gently at your toes; 

Giving you encouragement -

'Go on',

'Jump in',

'It's not cold'. 

At the beginning, 

You maybe thought,

The waves gave you an edge.

People saw them swell and thought - 

She's raging,

Crazy;

Dead. 

You wore them on your shoulders see,

A scarf to fight the chill.

Your sleeves awash with angry marks,

Sawed dust amidst the mill. 

The waves they whimpered when you left,

They screamed to call you back,

They were a womb without a babe,

Mad without a hat. 

You thrashed,

You fought, 

But then you fell.

Coiling like a snake.

Into the water,

Gasping mess.

No lifeboat,

No life left.

The waves were crushing.

They ate your hate.

Grew mighty from the feast you made.

Drowning slowly,

Sad lost girl.

Choking back the salt.

Tears an ocean,

Blood a stream.

Angry jealous thought. 

Eventually the storm does calm.

Leaving you to rest.

But it returns.

That laughing surf;

Devours you once again.