sorenbarrett

The smell of youth

The smell of youth caught in my throat

spurting memories spray a sweet acrid taste

rusting in lost fog, discarded dreams afloat

tasteless, clouds of drifting waste

 

Seams broken, leaking, swollen

up twisted nose pressing a blank wall

In evening\'s setting dawn\'s stolen

when color blind see spring in fall

 

Wrapped in vacant eggshells

chicks dream scraps of young dreams

lifted by dancing thunder\'s smell

echo in technicolor bubbling streams