April hour: a poem

I stare up at ceilings like stars
Mapping the shadows
Into a voyage on the sea

Birds tweet
Light bleeds

Awareness

Acceptance

Flash

I stare up at goosebumps on ceilings
Why is it always about me

Let me slow it down

Matte to glistening
Cobalt ombre to caribbean
Wooden boat atop sequined seas
Convenient breeze
An island, Ahoy!
A lizard’s goosebumped neon
To human
To me

Awareness

Acceptance

Flash

I stare up at mortality
Watching a dying dog
From the perspective of the other
Push up 
Slide a quarter-turn
Slump down
Push up
Slide
Slump
Curiosity worth the pain

Awareness

Acceptance

Flash