Hotel X

I watched the smoke rise slowly from your tired eyes Two columns weaved a marble gateway to a starlit moon And painfully you raised your stick and Led me through with promises of paradise Where nothing ever dies It blossoms I follow pacified No preconceptions. Open-eyed My faith worn on the shaky hand that's hanging to your ribbons We walked across the crystal ocean, sheltered from the storm. We were born inside a black light cavern. Watched the red sky raining roman candles. Washed our hands in amber. We were married in the shade. A shadow play was serenading adagio. Then faded yellow. Grey. Green. Purple. Blue. A rainbow whirlpool sucked us down We tiptoed senseless underground There was nothing we could hold except each other You murmured your apologies. I smothered you with sympathy. We crawled, we shivered to the mirror. Where you saw your shaky hand hang bravely. To my ribbons. And me, I watched my tired eyes slowly burning. Slowly burning. Slowly burning. Slowly Burning. Fade away.