The Yelling Tree (Love)

THE YELLING TREE (LOVE) - Written by Carroll Bryant

To your heart, I am an extraterrestrial

An invader to your world

The world

To all worlds known and unknown

A parasite of invalid love

A space cadet drifting aimlessly

Through vortexes and black holes

An astronaut of the nebulas

Traveling from one galaxy to the next

Trying to avoid debris and radio active particles

Breathing from an unending supply of oxygen

From an apparatus made by your hands

Was I not good enough for you?

Too imperfect?

Too real for your fantasies?

Or a blemish on the face of your reality?

It’s quiet out here

Gazing at all the nothingness around me

Reflecting light from distant suns

A moon that embodies everything you are not

To feel like an asteroid

A meteorite

An infallible invention of malcontent

Known exclusively as your “ex”

More like your fool

You’re the one who performed a polar shift!

You’re the one whose orbit is out of whack!

It was your climate that changed!

Was I not bad enough for you?

Too perfect?

Too unfathomable for your thoughts?

Or a stain on the prom dress of your life?

I question your intentions!

I question you!

I hate you!

I love you!

I miss you!

I can’t live!

Without you

And yet I do live

Just barely it seems

My shadows, my self pity

They are my only company

Still alone out here in vast emptiness of every heartbeat

That is yours to take

Why me?

Why now?

Why not?

Why not me?

No!

Trifle as I am in my moments of solitude

I yearn for one day to remove my helmet

And breathe-in time

The dead cold of your soul

The dead cold that deprives me of my smile

Love!

I laugh!

What a joke!

The pain is the punch-line

You are you

I am me

Where can we go from here?

We can go nowhere!

Love …

What a joke

What a laugh

What a tear

Damn you!