Cherry

Darkness.
Black and arid as summer nights are.
Unknowing.
The worlds ends at the edge of the bed.
Unbeknowest to me,
A light formed and broke
My shallow interpretation of the world.
The light dimmed,
But it burned on.
How? Why?
A small ball of red light
Moved left,
Then right,
And circled about.
Dizzy and drunk
With this expirence.
In all the dankness of life,
There is a cherry light,
To wile your worries away.
But tread carefully,
The light burns slowly away.
A truth that burns slowly at the end of my mother's cigarette.


2001 - BLP