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Pandora’s Lion

two lights crept into the shadows,

the hungry aesthetics of a lion’s

roar shaking that cracked ground

beneath; water surged from the

moon drowning the math and gloom

of scattered scorpions.

a simulated sigh and a titanium smile,

tears drifted into the clouds

while the scent of alien incense lingered

in the air.

battle ensued with sex and sanity

casting spheres of flame and

limitless sparks of blue burning

the paper walls of the universe.

the words that hurt and heal leave

bare footprints that lead beyond the

hills and ancient burial mounds where

truth of love is unpronounceable but

is called upon by every sweeping breeze

and steady chill, every warm burst

of sunlight and glowing ember

in the fire.

sullen Pandora fitted the key into

her dreamy box as it phased in and

out of reality and only Hope drifted

out this time in the skin of a lion

and a crown of volcanic rock.