unseen invisible and eccentric

I change my colors

blotting out the blue

turning temper purple

refraining from the heat of red

I am never absent

but you never know I'm here

my eyes are steel yours are the sea

adjust my skin to match

to show them the magic

the rainbow in your smile

I can't differentiate between

ink stains and bruises but

my skin is eternally coated in

temporary pools

of memory and muse

I fell in love with the moon snail

long before I understood

my own entrails and I

learned to read my palm before

I ever wrote a word of truth

the bags beneath my eyes were

painted by the moon and they

contain constellations my words

are tidal waves and I was never

prepared for the damage

a slap of lightning and grumble of

thunder and then the storm is

through it was never forecast

I have stanzas shifting in my

stomach waiting for life

abandoning poetry would be

suicide and I've got scars enough

to hide behind but each line leaves

me bare here I am scared here but

this is the first time I've

dared to

breathe

my love is like the ocean

too vast

too fast

I rarely dared to stick a toe in

but you pushed me overboard

and now I'm drowning

but I don't mind