sestina

Sestina

Baby learned to wander
Through an apprehension’s fog
Mists of secrets clingin like a breath that’s held too long
Will it leave her come the daylight
Hardened fast like molten stone?
See them through the dimness, onyx eyes a broken dull.

Tears don’t make them shimmer they remain a ghostly dull
Hatred learns to wander
Movin quick, his fist, like stone
Baby’s brains get liquefied and drift into a fog
Nana singin joy comes in the daylight
But light of day don’t last so long

Nana said she neva thought that it would last this long
She done called on Jesus cuz Baby’s eyes too dull
All the singin on the earth can’t still the daylight
Here beneath the heavens where baby learned to wander
Through an apprehension’s fog
All the singin in the world and her brain still moves like stone

A deer caught in the headlights, her body froze as stone
Here comes his big black belt, the one that’s two feet long
Marlboro he smells like, he walks within a fog
See them through the dimness, onyx eyes a broken dull
Baby’s spirit seeks to wander
It will make its own way home with joy comin in daylight

Birds, they sing in daylight
And don’t notice hearts stopped like stone
Baby’s spirit free to wander
Come day, come all night long
See them through the dimness, onyx eyes a broken dull
Baby stuck forever in an apprehension’s fog

Baby stuck forever in an apprehension’s fog
Would she have left him in the daylight
Onyx eyes a broken dull
All the singin in the world and her brain still moved like stone
Nana said she neva thought that it would last this long
Marlboro he smelled like and walked within a fog.



Baby’s eyes died dull in an apprehension’s fog
Now her spirit wanders past daylight
Held in fog when Nana said she neva thought that it would last this long