Somewhere Inside Of You! Poem by Mark Heathcote

Every life shall meet death.
Every breath crosses that bridge
Every autumn leaf falls bereft.
See all in its burning leafage.

Oh diamond sparks burn inside
…Blue, with rage, behind iron-bars.
Oh there's a heart of a flower
And, somewhere inside of you!
Inside of you; child there's a Houdini
Honeycombed with green-envying eyes
Somewhere inside of you, child, there's
A queen, that, that, that, never dies

Oh, look, child how she just swans
Seductively easy across the skies
Ah, seduction… in ivory,
Seduction… in ivory,
Seduction… in ivory blossom
Into a million crimson dyes,
But—no she'll never, ever, ever, die.
Nor be cast down into that dead leafage.

Ghostly; she's like some spiders webbing,
Webbed; across deaths ebony warring face.
Every life is like a stillborn thought
Just waiting, wondering, and rippling out of breath.

Inside of you; child there's a Houdini
Honeycombed with green envying eyes
Somewhere inside of you, child, there's
A queen, that, that, that, never dies

Oh, look child she just swans
Seductively, easy across the skies
Ah, seductively into ivory,
Seduction… into ivory,
Seduction… in ivory blossom
Oh, into a million crimson dyes,
But—no she'll never, ever, ever, die.
Nor be cast down into that dead leafage.