Last Words Of A Ballerina
You have galloped all across the fire,
You have sunken deep within the Earth,
And you are vying to resurface -
To disengage from the quagmired waters
That do not ebb with a contagious mire.
You are the fire,
You are the ire of the heavens!
You are the distorted images
Of moist and dewy glasses of redemption.
And so, they have long taken your flesh
In this consummating perdition.
You are a supercilious prying flower
That I entertain inside my own shoddy world.
This did not give you life.
They have stolen your satin,
They have pillaged your swan-like costume,
They have imitated your swooning grace.
And you have died,
Right before you executed
Your very first modest maneuver in mid-air
As you said, the phrase that will be a mordant finale
Of your sepulchral gyration:
Hereon, nonchalantly, you have screamed:
”I am one with them! ”