Kali
Kali, Kali, Kali
She is the sated navy night
Swathed with soldering white stars
Warm summer air, coastal dream
An unwavering fortune of
deep, red Eden grapes
Hanging like drops of sweet wine
Shifting with dark leaves
the balmy breeze
with trees that sound like tumbling seas,
singing,
“Kali, Kali, Kali”
She is a lullaby, a reverie
At home and away
She carries all of it with her
A man’s entire heart,
Italian spells
Her golden hips curving like a bell
slender spindle legs
sun kissed shoulders
wrapped soft, she is a doll
with air-brushed skin
Kali, Kali, Kali…
You will always win
While I will never be enough
Kali, your legacy
presses knives in me
Making my hour glass body
an inadequate pendant
with an unfortunate name
a ripped blue dress
second rate lips
falling to the floor, sore…
My nights pulse only with heavy music
Rummaging suits, dark rooms
sticky floors, cigarettes, señores
and a dizzied mind
hoping this night will pass
and I’m terrified, Love
Because even when you’re with me
I can’t be home
And I can’t be my own
My blood’s too dense
And my heart’s too free
This, Kali makes me see
I am not a dream
But broken seams
My intentions covered over
By the song of tumbling seas
I’ll only ever be
Unworthy me…
Alli…
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