Friday, April 1, 2016

tokyo tea for two


held her in my arms

immersed in her charms

she was tokyo tea

so hot passion burned

like a five alarm fire

 

in l.a. without a rhyme

love has always been sublime

and i’m the congregation

in search of a house of worship

 

it was an all night event

she taught me to reinvent

and escape the recent moments

that makes me feel as if

life is like a doctor’s waiting room

 

i was born in l.a.

she was born far away

my fingers traced her exotic face

that floated on surfaces of sorrow

for a night we both tried to borrow

more than memories of the mundane

 

she kissed my tattoo of a crane

gotten on a night i don’t remember

and when i entered the shops

of little tokyo

the clerks would see it and bow

 

still i don’t know how

to make more than these moments

of flesh matter

 

my thoughts are always scattered

but the salt of her skin on my tongue

helped me to focus

 

the murky pond and the lotus

her purity breaking the surface

and reaching for the warmth of the sun

 

but the harsh light of day

sent me on my way

after exposing that

copulation on cotton sheets

is all i really have to offer

 

been here before

the morning after whore

light a cigarette

on a sidewalk in l.a.

while all that surrounds

the concrete and sounds

cannot stop this plummet

and the inevitable fatal crash

 

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