Orfeo is Listless

So I had forger you

And you forget back

All the rooms of the bordello

All the mirrors are poof

You took a rose

Mistaken it for rosé

All talk picture this

In the room there was a whale

Now only whalebones

Acting as scaffolding support

Like you and the other you

Nothing doesn't matter

Noting it's still nothing

The scent of your hair

Perpetrates the air

Now you heard it One day more

For this moment was our past

You were chewing pur candy

All of the beds are made

Light cast in the tv

Oh you don't own one

Now you own me

You glanced through the screen

And see nothing but saffron

Flower from another age

Frame upon frame

This game we played

Like no one else

Like no one lingers

Like no one pursues

See you down stairs

But there are no stairs

Only a staccato

And a missing frame

I will settle for less

Spot the missing frame

Of all crocuses and freesias

You will pretend to remember mmmm...

By Aran Meredith

June 2024

Falling for and into you.