Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Invocation

Help me, Muse. Make me a master weaver; give me yarn to wind into a royal web of tales. Give me words that drip like the icicles hanging from Christmas lights in February. Words that burn the paper they’re on once read. Words that endure like old boulders, like scattered, defective, misshapen misfits lying in the foundations of lost buildings.
Give me a voice that can tremble and burst, Muse. A voice that creaks like the door you have to sneak through. A voice that suffocates under its own whirling, whipping dreams. A voice that flies through the teeming mountains. A voice that dries souls.
Give me notes that can darken the sky and will the snow down from it. Notes that pop like wet fireworks in the cul-de-sac. Notes that laugh like cats in the bathtub.
Muse, let the words in my bed imprint themselves on my brain for everyone else to see. Let the morning light engulf the tapping keys after a night wasted well. Let the sunbaked waves climb the frigid mountains.
Muse, remind me of how to sleep in less time. Remind me of those streets where my soul was born. Remind me of the wild fibers of detached comfort. Remind me of the unraveling bodies. Remind me of the beautiful melodies, the unfaltering truth behind those words, Muse. Remind me.

2 comments:

  1. I think it sounds really good... I love all of the comparisons you make (such as the voice that dries souls. I love that line~)
    A few simple suggestions I could give you (only two, really) would be that in the line with the burning word paper, I would cut out the 'they're on'. It makes it sound a little choppy. I love the line, but it needs... something. Or perhaps something taken away.
    And then one last thing I would suggest would be that with the door, instead of sneaking, why don't you try creeping? It gives it better alliteration... at least I think so... creaks like the door you have to creep through. I don't know. Just a suggestion.
    It sounds really good, though. It's interesting to read and captivating. Lovely imagery~

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