EVERY PART OF ME
IS SCREAMING OUT LOUD
but it’s over now
dragon, you’re out of time
every minutiae bears clocks of crooked sameness
all the same time
all
fro
zen
so
lid
YOU KNOW WHAT COMES NEXT
DON’T YOU
things fucking things
all thrown over other lopsided things
bears no repetition
no sameness
no repetition
no sameness
BUT I’M BLEEDING
I’M BLEEDING
out over
no
thing
caught
in
the
links
al
ter
nat
ing
con
stant
ly
there’s so much space
in the faraway place
to plant the things
you want
to see
grow
but where are you
where are you
where are you
WHERE ARE YOU
AND WHY CAN’T YOU HEAR ME
CAN YOU SEE THIS
CAN YOU HEAR THIS
DOES THIS
NEED
TO BE
REPEATED
HOW
MANY
TIMES
DO I HAVE TO SAY IT
TWICE?
HOW MANY TIMES
DOES IT HAVE
TO BE
TWICE
HOW MANY TIMES
WILL I
STAND
ON
THE
EDGE
before it all gives way
and these things don’t shift
and these things don’t mix
and these things don’t grow
“you’re the one
playing with fire,
dragonfly”
young one
dumb one
thinking out loud
“it’s rain on your parade
when it’s sun
everyday”
fuck
barely aware when i’m awake
i’m barely there
when it’s okay
i feel like everything is in circles
until it’s not
monstrous thoughts cloud this contrived thing
and it splits apart
shatters
into a thousand
disparate parts
and then it restarts
it’s again until it’s not
chasing rainbows
in forest aglow
full of impossible things
but this dragon i’m chasing
hasn’t been through here
since i went
and clipped its wings
JD Jurado – Dragonfly is about the experience required for real change to take place and how sometimes everything has to be erased and starting over before you can move forward.
mi-nu-ti-ae noun
the small, precise, or trivial details of something
© JD Jurado 2019 all rights reserved.
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