Cleopatra-by-the-Sea

Cleopatra-by-the-sea

Heart full of palm trees beating greenly against a ribcage of blue waters

Within which it is comfortably cloistered

Clouds of linen floating in to clothe eyes full of naked sky

Her blood is flocks of scarlet macaws

Running through veins of gentle wind

Carrying the scent of peach, sunscreen and

Chlorine signing ripples with its pale pungent calligraphy

Cleopatra-by-the-Sea

Heart full of orchids beating slowly against a ribcage of blue sky

Looking inward with kaleidoscope eyes

Outward towards unknown isles

Her mind is a garden of hummingbirds

And a chorus of howler monkey cries in the black perfumed night

Cleopatra-by-the-Sea

The city that is a petite sun-tanned queen

Sitting enthroned above layers of worlds

Octopus's gardens and freshwater pearls

She laughs at tomorrow and as she does

We ride the wave of her smile

As it crests and breaks against the shores of her laugh

She is dancing into nothing and never looking back