Wallpaper Dreams

Creed: my sacrifice

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O-fyNgHdmLI
 
She cracks through  
a crepe-paper husk of fragile memory;  
her fragments scatter  
where glass water shatters,
every color in her image.
 
My one true eye sees her --
recalls in an instant coming alight
and how she was my candle drowning
in a dream as the band played on
all the while to her tribute.
 
I never left her there where
she broke through my fractured skin
to remain; burned, branded
as I grew old --
I am only young where she still is.
 
I give myself up in pale patinas
on crevaced blank pages uncrinkled,
the story never penned there --
but I can be relinquished in her
to stay buoyant;
partly obscured, partly ending,
never believed.
I rise with her sloshing tide
and in her wake, I'm free.
 
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