Human Kite

Once i woke to find a splinter

Forgotten in my northern eye

Scratched and scribbled to remove it

But it was shy so warm inside

Tried my best to re-remember

What foe or friend had placed it there

Wading through the hall of records

The sand and sea beneath my hair

I was lost and floating frantic

Through such piles of ancient grime

I had never learned to swim in

My own kaleidoscopic mind

Always stuck to simpler waters

Soft push and pull of others' tides

Shallow blues and lofty hazels

The only riddles i'd dare ride

Though when i confront the mirror

The look she gives me is black as night

Deeper than our mother ocean

Absorbing every speck of light

Once i dreamed the end of winter

Was hidden in my southern eye

I clicked my teeth and asked for spring

But she was wilting closed as ice

I tried to warm her by the flame

That leaped out of my northern stare

Lacing lashes through the ashes

Powdered gray compressed my care

I was hidden between pages

Obsessing over abstract time

Between all the roman numerals

A ticking face so far from mine

Kept my wings all folded under

Moving within the grid and guide

But today i'll test my edges

And fall or free from off the side

With the moon i will uncover

My waxing luminescent sight

For i am just a constellation

And lightning flies this human kite