Verse: Marble Floor

Tiffany shade hits the rose colored marble floor

And shatters into a million pieces

Of lead and glass across the inlaid map of the world

Perhaps it was spinning

Way too fast

Red lands in Rome

Blue in San Francisco

Yellow in Denver

Shards of Green spread across Europe

Those primary places she’d left her mark.

The wire still rolling

So hollow sounding

Bouncing and spinning

Rainbows all across Asia and Africa

Glittering through the Pacific

Leaving a Green shard on Hawaii as it passed by…

Places she dreamed she’d go

Before the hourglass ran out of time

A loud sobbing is heard once again through the giant room

So cold so large

So hollow

Tears hit that marble floor like seconds on a clock

Tick tock tick tock tick tock

“Why?!?” she screams.

And the golden hourglass hits the marble floor.

Clear glass shatters across the map

Over every country across the world

Places she’s been, places she dreamed of

All covered now in a fine layer of white sand.

And the empty golden pillar just rolls away

Down the hollow empty room.

The sound of sobbing fills the chilly air

But there isn’t anyone to hear it

Except the girl

And she’s heard it all before

She doesn’t care much for the sound at all.

The next sound someone would hear

if there was

Anyone there to hear it at all

Would be a wooden chair being pushed backwards

Scraping that marble floor and

The padded almost silent feet walking across the floor…

She walks over the mess to the compass north

And laughs as she spins. spins, spins

Making red footprints in the sand

Then falling gently onto the heap

Wondering where in her dreams she will land tonight.