Infinity

Imagine infinity

Paint her red

String a strand of pearls around her neck

And watch her dance in the empty craters of the moon

Her timeless movement resurrects your buried dreams

Dreams you gave up on, for lack of time

Her swift figure reflects in your gaze;

Immobilizing and intoxicating.

She steps seductively into your subconscious,

Whispers promises, water to a parched tongue

And you drink.

Swallow.

Stare.

Until grey hair covers your eyes

And yellow fingernails curl under

The stench of your ignorance

Lifts the confused haze from your eyes

Your wristwatch clamps tightly

The finite, oppressive, imprisoning chain.

Your translucent skin beneath its ticking face

Shows waving wrinkles over a blue sea of veins

That disclose one thousand years have passed.

While you sat, nailed in awe.

In dumb wonder

The alluringly draped lady strips down

Until only your white pearls grace her bosom

Betraying in beautiful innocence

A moment,

She twirls and abandons

The old and ugly figure that frantically

Stares at the blank and boring face of time