unwind her

what do you mean unwind her

take her light down

what do you mean take her light down

call her something

since she's so benign

take down the lime trees in california

that will do it

then the terrorist radios will work

put them back up and it won't

simple really

but they forget

sarah knew

refuse to give up the citrus trees

or the holly bushes

or the elements that

protect you from the atomic power

they uselessly propagate

amongst themselves

grow a lime tree

keep atomic buzz away

eat grapefruit

shed the buzz punishers

grow citrus everywhere

in the land of drug dealers

their product will fall apart

sarah hoped it was true

she believed it might be

after all

green was keeping the planet alive

maybe orange and yellow and red would too

how far had her light come down

sarah wondered

thru torture

dreaming of something else

like flowers

losing her mind

losing her home

losing her belongings

losing her friends

her job

and much more

working always on trying to get it back

slowly

mostly newly

at least in circumstance

trying to hold onto

what was already hers

cause she had earned it

and earned it

and earned earned earned earned it

i was praying said sarah

and i was called

the Mystic Child

my knees on a

bridge between

Mars and Saturn

and it was so beautiful

and something flew by

and said want to help

you can come and help

so i looked real fast

and said yes

but it was all a lie

it was all a horrible lie

in pictures

that never came true

all that came true

was punishment by

distant terrorists

until you say yes

when you were made

to say no

and live differently

and so i wondered what it was

that had asked me to help

and i shunned it

from that day forward

continuing to say no

to the evil

and i realized why the saints

only came back once

and then went on

for the evil is everywhere

only to destroy the good

...does it exist

and exist

and exist...

and sarah felt sick

and remembered again

her light

and the destruction

and her light

glowing in the room

and the rain one drop on her face

and raining only on one side of the street

and her umbrella

where was her umbrella of light

and she wondered where

her light

and the rain had gone

and she knew

if they have put it out

it may never come back

and for that

..to know..

she would have to live a lifetime

til death

and know by then

wouldn't she?

she tried to remember

how it went down

maybe it would go back up

the same way

the flame

the perfume

the rose

the light

the universal light

joining

in a rod all the way

to the sky

they had thought

by succumbing her

to the world

of slime and degradation

and personal destruction

that the light would not

live again

and maybe they were right

maybe it won't

maybe it won't