Horizontal Horizons Poem by Mark Heathcote

Horizontal horizons lead my step
And unbutton my blouse
And loosen off my shoes
And like airships we collide
Never again to feel confused.

A ballet dancer I dance in the clouds
With a frozen smile
I’ll muse what the evenings winking eye
Will bring when, again…
We’re laid down side by side.

With horizontal horizons to dark to spy,
And quenching sparks of a firefly,
Quenched is all we’ll ever understand?
Oh with a frozen smile I’ll sleep.
I’ll dream all my dreams have been fulfilled.

And all our innate silences sighed…
Will speak of all them gone before
Who ever knew?
What it's like lying beside the one?
You just couldn’t leave alone at the bar.

Oh horizontal horizons lead my step
And unbutton my blouse
And loosen off my shoes
And like airships we collide
Never again to feel confused.