French

Let us go then you and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a two way mirror shattered by morning breath
May we trot around the plains, painting portraits of the old
The days everlasting, and nights of the bold
Around and above the river-wrapped trees
where prayer is the only bruise left on her knees
Skies that spin like dradels in a hurricane
Of no significant name.
Now you wish to ask, now you wish to know
Where is my place? Where do I escape?

We then fade into distance, we are safe; we are safe.

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In this dream with women of movement
fluent in french, and more so in affluence

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The cosmic winds that lead us softly to breathe
The cosmic hands that guide us harshly to see
watched us fall from the clouds as rain
If in grievance we came, then in it too, we leave
We are sinking like breaststrokes over ocean waves
Melting moonlight over land and sea
Caressed in marmalade skies
where feathers call home, and in which we long to be

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And indeed a love will appear
For the cosmic wind to slide over our eyes
guiding us softly to breathe;
a love will appear, a love will appear
To entangle you in a world alive
A love will appear to distinguish voice from sound
and a gale to pierce the evenings calm

That in which our minds have swam and drowned

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In this dream with women of movement
fluent in french, and more so in affluence

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And indeed a love will appear
To greet your incandescence with a smile
You will answer with questions, and treat with a trial
With torn soles after fleeing those miles and miles

We then fade into distance, we are safe; we are safe

Author's Note

I realize the opening line is from a T.S. Elliot poem
It's structurally based off of the love story of J. Alfred Prufrock
For all you poetry buffs

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Well designed...you merged both authors and your work... to make this verse... Good you give them credit in the Author's note...