Smoke Rings Poem by Nick Perritt

Birds fly in smoke rings
Their marriage wings disperse,
A cage inside a funeral hearse
Holds birth the curse immersed.
The sunrise smile a corpse diseased
The stars they fall to bleeding knees
The moon half empty weeps for night
Clouds full of tears and silver light.
O where does eternity go in the end?
To sift through darkness it's depths to descend
In her iris she'll hide the heavens inside
As shadows will collide with white defiant light.
She closed my eyes with heavenly sighs
And candle lit fingers she lingers
Eternally inside my breath
Beneath the sun stained emptiness
Our souls refined
Our hearts undressed
We beat in the self same sleepless chest.