shadow

i turned my gaze from beyond and back
still i see you
i run the world in peach and black
but could not shake you off


my heart seemed to have been etched
in your image
yet masked and hidden from
the paper and wages


no hills nor plains shall let this flow
no sea nor river shall mud this throw
so long and bye now  my sweet tooth
all centuries' gait, covers in soot!


Criss Crossing's Mind Muddles
2012.02.19

PASSING TIME

by Maya Angelou

Your skin like
dawn

Mine like musk
One paints the
beginning

of a certain end.
The other,

the end of a sure beginning.