Arabesque Skies
Mitamu
The beating of the unknown in my chest
Makes the Sun too dim to behold
Cloudiness emerges from my breath
And I do not believe that these things
I hold dear, the love, the dream, the now and then
Will save me from the moment time and space
Eclipse into shadows that dance across
The walls of this world
From where I stand
Forward and backward both look the same
Both beckon movements that betray the pain
What, then, do I stumble towards
When light, dark, left and right give me no sanctity?
I crawl inside
Open a window
And gaze at those arabesque skies
Dirt and dust
Gather on my body like rust
This is a mental image of trust
In my soul
Hands dripping light from the coal
I plucked from my skin
For the wind blowing home
Eyes anew, the skylines hide the true
When I forget myself, times might find the blue
I wander for a reason
To turn it back
To times I didn’t leave tracks made of thumbtacks
(And I feel so insecure
I run away
Far far away
Into a dream
But I still feel the same
Why is all the pain still here?)
The path I take makes rivers wake earthquakes
The path I take makes night cross daybreak
The path I take makes heart rend heartache
And that’s a feeling I will never shake off
So I rest, I dream, I color up a hurricane
That take the pain and turn it into Novocain
But when I speak, my teeth flex dried muscle
Ay what’s a dream if it mean my whole mind muddled?
No use in turning back
To yesterday
Whatever day
Is long dead and gone
Out of mind
I’m all out of time
A cry without an answer
Left to die
I wonder why
Do all my tears create these
Arabesque skies
So filled with sorrow
With all these shades of blue
Too many shades of blue
Will I believe?
No, I will not believe
That time will give the answer
Or the reason for these
Arabesque skies
Then, now, tomorrow
When day and night collide
Is when I’ll finally know
I’ll know