Waking Grace
I woke to an auto roar,
The spit of sunbeams filtered dirt,
The catcalls at the door,
The grace of love and hurt.
I breathed out the flak of dreams,
The exhaled death of life askew,
The caterwaul of distant screams,
The grace of one so true.
I spoke of her ruling day,
The whispers at her lissom spine,
The lips that brushed her vertebrae,
The grace of me and mine.
I broke like a snapping nail,
The feelings to her gravitate,
The lustre of my arms fell pale,
The grace of sex and fate.
I shed but a single tear,
The reckoning of all I need,
The idol held so fast and near,
The grace of why I bleed.
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