Flower Into Dreaming Brains

Flower Into Dreaming Brains
© Surazeus
2024 12 17

When I kneel and gaze in the river mirror 
I see everything that happens on Earth 
as endless stream of conscious consequence 
where light beams flower into dreaming brains 
who sing strange beauty of the universe, 
then float in darkness of the nevermore. 

While reading book about history of Europe 
in reverent quiet of the school library, 
Kelly gazes out the window to watch 
flock of birds erupt from the chestnut tree, 
so she grins at soft sound of fluttering wings 
that soothes strange ache of her unwounded heart. 

Guns shots startle her mind from reverie, 
which revs up her heart to beat in high gear, 
so she looks over with eyes of the hawk 
to see the boy Donald, who asks her out 
though she keeps saying no, shoot seven boys 
in the head, so she leaps behind the shelf. 

Standing at the library window, stiff 
with rage, Donald glares at the distant city, 
and snarls about how girls reject his love, 
then mumbles that he will kill everyone, 
but sirens wail, and voices of police 
echo down blood-splattered hall of the school. 

When Donald holds gun to side of his head, 
Kelly stands up with the radiant force 
of eye-blinding rainbows after storm rain, 
so he turns to stare in her emerald eyes, 
hoping to see faint flicker of true love, 
then sneers with disdain as she shoots himself.  

Buzzing faster than honey bees that spot 
lilacs blooming purple by the front door, 
steel bullet erases his consciousness, 
scattering his soul as stars in the sky, 
and Kelly jerks with shock to see his brain 
splatter secret messages on the window. 

Kneeling on clear floor of the school library, 
Kelly feels profound heartbeat of the Earth 
that vibrates in her body, so she shakes 
with shock at vision of light in the sky, 
then floats above the ground on angel wings 
that unfold from coil of fear in her heart. 

Many years later while teaching world history 
to high school students who like to act up, 
Kelly will remember cloud of despair 
blinding eyes of the cruel killer with rage, 
so she dances lithely among their desks 
so fast she floats in the sky without wings.