dreaming in 2009

15 years of a life so fast dipped in oil lamps and breathing in praise you were better falling once, twice, and once again in the dusty fields summer dust striving to reach your knee as you run towards people you'll never find better staining pages with childhood tears better sitting cross legged with a clay toy chipping away dried soil on your feet better bleeding boyhood through your knees paint peels off and sympathy gets stale but a war lives on tongues and goes on forever every tear falling down your cheeks is every leaf falling from your favourite tree in your garden and one day every glint of sparkle in your eyes will bite beneath your bed like termites - or sing you to sleep. one ones are one and you've been warned. to step out with spat out tangerines for legs and fall only where bruised feet have been the marigold blooms - there's the winter you call hope there's the smoke you call home when amalgamted time fogs the next few minutes and blocks your nose - smile for the people around you smile for the season you love smile for the lamp burning itself to Mars in the distance and wear that mask like it's an indian treasure one day you'll scrap this life off your face yourself