salinity

hopes and aspirations
spun like dirty little diamonds
on an asphalt of
infinity
repeat themselves
demanding tones
salinity.

fakes and non-solutions
spreading surfaces like slicks
rainbow toxins
seeping
weeping wounds
unhealing faith
unseemly.

Stretched along a breaking strain
a push and pull refrain
steeping words in acrid smoke
watch them fail to rise
from ashes in reprise.

too close
for comfort zones
to offer consolation
prizes for the fool
who lost the golden rule
and cared a little more than etiquette intended.

there’s stillness
that can hold me like a vacuum
in the morning
infiltrate
run me through
leave a space
vacate.