Serendipity's Lips

I've always hated these long good-bye poems

If I saw the face of death, it's cause I kissed her with my eyes open

Lipstick on my closed funeral casket

Asking "what for" like a roman numeral math quiz

It's enigmatic, the way a soul can hang-glide

In a world of diamonds but remain a pearl like Shanghai

I aim jewels at the heads of angels

To examine when the gold in their halos became Fool's

They played pool with my options for eternity

But missed the cue and chose purgatory out courtesy

I was seduced to slumber by Serendipity's lips

And tied to a swan feather like a rotisserie spit

Heaven's on earth and I'm glad that I caught a glimpse

Before they lured me to a sea of slaughtered men with water nymphs

And it's torturing to think it's like this where the light ends

Reminds me of America the way it's run by white men

I'm tiptoeing this tempered katana edge

When I take the time to wonder what's under the monster's bed

These perverts play with feelings while they work nerves

And a piece of me is murdered every time I say a curse word?

Their land of milk and honey doesn't seem fake

Cause they know you couldn't paint it in your wildest dream-scape

But on the other side, we can hear our mother's cry

And linger on the muffled highs of their final lullabies

Your soul is scented by a potpourri of lotus leaves

They float the breeze and grow beneath the rosewood trees

It's poetry, no, it's closer to a finger painting

From the simpler days when everything

Was crayon-wax and pencil shavings

I'm integrating 8 millimeter memories

With letters in lipstick that ended with "Remember Me"

Blanketed in purity, security's tight wrap

If this is forever, **** that, I want my life back

If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife

If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light

If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife

If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light

If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife

If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light

If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife

If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light