SLIPPERY SECONDS

I want to know more, show me everything you got, teach me, enlighten me. I want to reach the tops of the grey areas, the ones that are not sullied. I came into that room naked because I knew they were sewing a dress for the new comer before I arrived. I ignored its size of if the color was going to match the shades of my eyes. They ignored my willingness to adapt and to learn but the work kept on going like there was no more day that that day. I enjoyed the reception, as much as my mouth, which corners were starting to crack because of the absence of drinking water. I got inebriated by the effect of such fresh encounter, dripping nectar over all of us like rinsing product of well hidden formula. I saw your pupils, I didn’t have the time to react; they were bullets leaving behind the blowpipe held pointing my eye globes. I received them fiercely; I had to stay strong in order to keep my composure. Is it being in front of a warrior that makes my heart bump like drum rolling? Is it the shine of his blinding armor that gave me such a random companion? Either way, there I was, stepping on the foot prints that I painted to illustrate the dancing book, this time barefoot. I come to have two boxes on my hands. One is a child’s play box, figures of plastic and wood mixed with marbles and memories. What you will find inside of the other as it opens is a question of updates and timing. I am grateful for the mélange, giving me the savoir faire, the incomparable bouquet, in the jumping mode as in the reflection. Round one was brief, fleeting and propelled by forces that want to reach other worlds. That is, kind of uncontrollable. My lips are moist for the lapse the clock goes around. I will travel and make a blurry composition of the whole scene, but I have this sensation that all the new horizons won’t erase your smile. The calendar will end, the seas in between will roar, scream and struggle to rest peacefully. Then, I will come back to hear you talking foreign languages to me like you did in those slippery seconds; like you knew, since forever. B_Nour