just like heaven
By Charlie Black
i think my hips might be trapped within my mattress
i think i started to sink
and phased through the top layers by mistake
topographical love
pushing upwards
in discs and planes
and i guess now we’re in a realm of colored pencil plateaus
and i wonder how often you think about me
and i wonder if things are going to go back
i imagine a dreamscape replica of my school
only it's not a replica but its still my school
i walk past suites that are endless expanses behind doors
that should probably be closed
and find myself in a lavish room filled with so many vases and everything is blue and green and velvet
and it was like heaven
like when the leaves are all the shades of leather
like limerence
like the want just bleeds into the air
like it should be illegal the way i wanted to touch your skin
electricity percolating
entropy takes hold
energy does not rearrange itself like matter does
but everything needs it
all the time
my therapist says
there are a lot of sweet people out there that you cannot morph yourself into to provide what they
need
i think it fizzles out eventually
i think it has to