Rose Pink

The sugar is still fizzing in my bloodstream 

It's 4am 

I'm Rose pink

Slow down girl, slow down girl

Pour some water, take a breath

Cool your hands in the kitchen sink

Sit down girl, sit down girl 

I take off my silver shoes 

Lay them in the light of the moon  

Still catching, still refracting 

the things I no longer need from you

I think about the girl I am laying to rest alongside them

How I wish I could pluck pages

From her book 

Before I close her

Like she was written in invisible ink

Darling

I'm fading, I'm fading 

I make arrangements for the funeral 

A trip away, to a man 

who is not her lover

But he has the light

And I have the gasoline

To burn away this sobbing girl 

into a new woman.

The Other Woman

red as a flame 

she burns too

The woman who 

was grilled like a steak

In the burning heat of your hate

In the sweltering grief

The sweet relief you felt

pulling the pearls of innocence 

from around her neck

Watched 

as she scattered 

across the Living Room floor

clattered and rolled 

into the cracks beneath the door

I let them vanish

My sanity too

from rose pink 

into a crushing velvet blue