She Built Her Ship Up North

She struck me as a child

Draped in paisley

Grinning with the dawn

Giggling with the dusk

With her cross to bear

And her Buster Browns

Dancing around the derelicts

Kissing the windows

Leaving her lip prints for those give a try

Like Cinderella's glass slipper

Her mane whispered to me in a dream

A strawberry swirl ebbing with the wind

Emeralds burned from her eyes

Arms outstretched

Beckoning all to bounce into her arms

She juggles you know?

Juggles the minds of the meek

And the hearts of the weak

Trip to heave and ho!

Scampering amongst the daisies

It's a dream world she resides in

A Dorothy lost in Oz kind of world

It's the reality that is her fantasy world

For to be normal is boring

Hiding with the raisins

Dancing with the brooms

Her Fantasia is now

I followed her for a bit

Nibbling on a piece of earth

I found on the road

Near the thousand dreams left there by others

I think her book is missing some pages

Chapters are all out of sequence

Look at this run on sentence!

She skipped along with herself trailing behind

This road was getting too steep for my taste

I waited for her to finish

She insisted on stopping

To bathe in the rain

It stung my eyes as it poured

She reveled in it

Circle danced to her own tribal beat

"I built my ship up North my dear"

She grins too much

Her pigtails are silly.....just so silly

This shop is so musty

The books are unreadable

Cryptic etchings and foreign symbols

I might sneeze

And blow it all to hell

She's finger-painting in the dusty floor

A happy face with a big dot on the forehead

Cute my dear.....real cute

I'm in a bind now

Literally

People need to sleep at times

To refresh the mind and the bones

She is restless

This chair is hurting my back

And you made the rope too tight

Put that damn cat-o-nine-tails away

This mask is suffocating me

She tastes like sugar

My lips pressed against hers

She continues to read her Poe

Scratching her temple as she looks down

"You're so boring"

Stiletto heels and a candy cane

She slurps

I suck

This is going nowhere

This well trained eye can see a counterfeit a mile away

I don't look good in mauve

Peach is meant to be eaten not worn

She sticks her tounge out at my garb

Whether to taste it's fruity shades

Or to mock me as I'm esconsced in rainbow's vomit

So you leave me on the road

Galloping away on your imaginary steed

"Thanks kiddo, see you on the flip side"

I now scratch my temple

Back to my world of wondrous nothingness

Thanks for the time

Until again, I shall be waiting