by Nella Elliot
songs in the night
beautiful world how much I love you
beautiful world how hard you try
beautiful world how perfect are you
beautiful world and yet we cry
beautiful world we’re sorry to hurt you
beautiful world when all flowers bloom
beautiful world how we want to love you
beautiful world and yet we feel gloom
beautiful world that loves us so dearly
beautiful world why are we so cruel?
beautiful world that loves us so clearly
beautiful world will we ever love you?
spiders live in my bones
my skin is of dirt
my eyes are of stones
the spiders have webbed
in secret my bones
my face has belonged to a tree once before
its blood gave me tears they‘ll bleed for once more
my flesh is the wind
it will soon be long gone
my eyes are of wax
they‘ll melt in the sun
my skin is of mud
will soon leave with the rain
my fingers are thorns
they sing about pain
© Nella Elliot 2023-08-09