time (nonlinear)
i had a dream
where the days bled into each other
time rewinded
and my body was heavy as lead
and my bones light as dove feathers
the sky forever dripped, in a shade of dreaded peach
sliced by aquamarine missiles
i could not breathe
i could not sleep
the eyes had returned
all golden
judging
ephemeral beings
they began eating away at my hands
then, at my heart
i blinked
and there you were
ready to birth me
again
Author’s note: This standalone poem is also part of a poetry collection that forms a short story, named ‘Love, Death’ — you can read the collection in ascending order on Medium.
About The Author: Author of over 20+ web-serials & novels, published by Tapas.io, recent addition to the Wattpad Stars program, and Winner of Tapas’s 2018 Summer Writing Competition, Beau Van Dalen’s stories have amassed a total of over one million reads online — between short stories, poems, novels and scripts, he can always be found with a pen in hand.
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