Now and Then: Opalescence

Opalescence

I was drawn… to you
Like the ripples in the pound
Running to the water’s edge
I was so confident
Your arms, so secure
As the ripples returned
Through one another
Like fingers in your hair
And the light through you
How you seemed so pure
But now something
Has left me
So unsure

But there’s a strange allure in all of this
In your
Opalescence
I have seen you in
A very
Different light…

Still, I’m drawn to you
As the car begins to sink
And your eyeliner doesn’t run…

You’re climbing towards the moon
Climbing the muddy bank
Never looking back
As the song slowly drinks
The icy dark I’d seen
First, deep…
In your brown eyes…
I’m so drawn by you



I was drawn to you
As you led me down the hall
Through the amber saturated lights…

I’ve died a thousand times
And woke in this dark hotel
Wearing another’s face
With the same stained lapel
From your scarlet kiss
A wedding gown of shadows
Dragging behind what I forget
Becomes all now
That daybreak
Has left

But I’m bound by that scarlet kiss
And your
Opalescence
It does consume me in
A very
Different light

Still, I’m drawn to you
Drawn… to you…





September 5, 2006