Aurora Rises

A parting gift heard through whispered lips
 Fingers trace the space between a fabled tryst
 Enhance the trance woven by nature's strands
 A bloom that's doomed to never exist
 The nausea of monotony, unveil your spell, so unfaltering
 Perhaps, raise your glass, and whatever comes to pass
 We'll know that the cup is always full
 In the northwestern portion of the southeastern state
 An aurora rises and shimmers in the lake
 Electrons dance in the magnetosphere
 Take my hand as the lights draw us near
 As we leave, try not to grind the gears
 Come with me and we'll go down to the park
 There's a milkman selling coffee and some homemade art
 Birds sing the words that are better left unheard
 And a note that lingers from the singer's heart
 Awkward pause and heartfelt cause
 Water falls over flaws as time begins to stall
 Cassandra's finding answers to questions never asked
 As I bask in the fixating awe
 Aurora's descending, upending dark matter
 Pretending and sending strands out in waves of clatters
 The isotopes and higher hopes like fraying ropes
 Lighting our eyes like blood heliotropes
 As we leave, we find the world's flatter
 We cloak ourselves in alternate realities
 Hiding from hellfire and artificiality
 Underneath green lights hanging so mysteriously
 Labyrinthine limerent overhaul
 The cure-all for the heart's caterwaul
 Such a wealth a wisdom at the age of twenty eight
 Sorry I kept you out so late