stormrosedream, I watch your petals twist through gales
more severe and beautiful than even your eyes
everything about you is a tragedy and a triumph
that fills my heart and seeps through its cracks
trickles downwards to my fingertip
and through your malice, your beauty, your wonder
I breathe you in — inspiration, oh cynosure dearest
with you, with you
I could even fall in love.
the world's gonna catch on fire,
they say
I could fear and I do
but I'd rather walk forward
and catch that blaze myself
take me with you, mama!
set me free, every atom to become,
once again — to change into stars
worlds planets others
there must be another world after this
after the conflagration days
and I believe this, like holding a flame on my tongue—
it's gotta be better than what
we never meant to set alight.
let me catch it, too
let me go with you.
don't cry, Kudryavka
you're not alone out there
starwards heading
more than a cosmic flash
amongst the space junk
I hear your transmission
my soul's there with you
we'll run through starfields
through the static of missed signals
until we find something better
than the Earth that ejected us
we'll whirl like satellites of love
somewhere we belong
amongst the foreverness
eternal, happy
so don't cry, Zhuchka
call me Aurora,
for I smeared the red ink
staining my fingertips
wishing goodbye to Ruby Tuesday
as the eighth time dawned
and I fell like a dying star
too shattered for the sky to hold
“goodbye, Sarajevo...”