Four Walls

remember how

the room would breathe

four walls two faces

the engine rattling in the dark

how the armor found you

you stood on the stairs to the attic

all the silence you kept

mostly for others sake

waiting

for the unseen amorous

a fiend of smoke and wire

to be spoken into being at last

like tears of gasoline

and how that spark

chased down your dreams

a breath of shadows

simmering in halls of glass

always inside the air itself

now after weeks without rain

as the sun crosses desert flowers

the silhouettes embark

heretics of their time

one shot back across the valley

and where will you call home

after the places you used to hide