Color of Insanity (Poem)

I sat on a rock the color of insanity.

It spoke to me like a demure day,

and then spat at my feet with sharp pieces of sand.

Then this rock, this tough, bony, shapeless hunk of hardness told me a story.

It sang its way through a hundred years while the tide grew from a whimpering lap

to a vicious conundrum. Its transformation I gazed at through wondrous eyes,

a memory I would never forget, no matter the hum and drum of water in my brain,

no matter how many blue notes I scraped from the sky with my fingernails caked in clay.

In this story I smelled girls that tasted like cotton-candy and had minds like wild horses.

I heard the half of me that's beast awaken in a frenzy to a lento wind winding its way through palms.

I tasted a soft, muted lemon-yellow fish on a woman's lips, delighted to be her swain

I smelled a shivaree as a penumbra swallowed the ocean's sunspots

I saw a cloud bend itself like a chevron over naked notes shifting their way upwards from this song.

Then I died alone floating as a scapegrace would. I died with no music in my ears,

no drums rough like mountain thunder, no curves&lips for my patient fingers to trace.

I died suddenly, without languor, without preamble.

Startled from my reverie, I jumped nervously off this luckless rock,

slapping sand that had risen suspiciously, secretively up my legs

and bolted from that place without a glance backwards.

Alone, minutes later,

I felt the water meet slushy sand and make sucking sounds 'round my ankles

and heaved a gentle sigh in the direction where mermaid's slink around their lairs.

Quietly I began advancing towards the Land of Nod,

when a sharp slice of eternity later I turned my head to say goodbye to that eccentric rock,

and saw perched upon that rock colored like insanity,

an hourglass figure, waving at me to come back,

waving with a smile smothered and smeared with sensuality.

I stood rooted in icy rings of water that lapped now around my neck,

and listened carefully as a new song floated out lazily towards me from that rock.