Butterfly Effect

I

sunning on a cloudy day
enchanted by cottony plight
gray and white
sky blue
as my mind
 
brilliant teasing
in and out
dizzily rolling clouds
faces appear within the mist
to demise
among the crowd

II

sweat-beads track down
tickling my nose
like comical tears
 
numb from the neck up
the shadows of days slipped by
imprint a message on my soul
DON'T LOSE CONTROL
 
'nevermore' the raven said
starving soldiers eat their dead
give me love is written
between the lines
of frozen fingers
and jellied spines

III

beams of light
rip thru a darkening sky
a ladder reaching
where angels hide
but the rungs are broken
 
the sun has fallen
now night wears on
rain smacks the concrete
a soothing song
erosion
 
peering thru the window
of my wooden womb
i see colors dripping
from the wings of butterflies

Houston, Texas '81