Lived to Tell

A hot air balloon ride  
come down now, Girl  
it's Time to believe -  
say it is so and make it so.  
 
Your bright yellow door  
always shining in darkness
now opening to the moon  
trawling across the water
toward your lips
smelling of damp flesh
 
Your heat rises with crickets
and bullfrogs bellow against
the belly of your whale,  
control resists its own death
inside your caged Life  
 
Make no more excuses
sing the moment like a Siren
dash against your own voice
lick your rock hard desire fully awake,  
alert for the next thing  
and the next after that
 
So when the final day approaches  
and the final day will arrive
You will have known Love happened
even if it leaves you so that all is left  
is a drunken soul  
even if you're looking
for your mother who scratched  
out your one last Hope,  
it happened for a reason.
 
It happened like a clear and loud lake  
that left you lonely and graceful.
Like a see-through shell who witnessed  
from the bottom of a polluted ocean
and lived to tell the stories  
like they just happened.