The Mysterious Voyage Of Homer Poem by Madeline Kelly

I took a walk down Evergreen
To pick up the last gold shards of the sun.
The feeling was intoxicating
Like eating the forbidden herb.

I remember the taste, like fire
But I had a mouth of wax
My skin turned gold
My hair fell out
And my mind went down the path less travelled.

The sun never rose
Nor did it ever sink
But the light was permanent.
The perfectly imperfect day.

The deliberate word
From fox to me,
Sent me in search
Of the body that held my matching souk.

The perfect day had ended
And now in eternal darkness
I headed for the substitute sun
The ‘house of light’

No knowledge the light could bring
And so I destroyed it.
And there she was in the dark
The obvious person who had always held my matching soul.

She relights the house.
And we kissed in the light.
The others rejoiced on the shore in a party
Of shorts shorter than shorts have any right to be.