Let Us Step Softly

Let us step softly into the woods
Of dreams,
Of distant fires
Glowing in the dark--

Let us step softly into the sea
Of screams,
Of repetitions, mutterings
And barks.

Let us step softly into this
Mad mirage
Of drunken souls professoriate,
Where minds explode
In some brain garage--
And splash like stumbling
Poet laureates.

Let us step softly into this
Abyss
Of twisted lovers, wrapped
Like coiled snakes
In some transcendent and
Transgendered kiss--
Where deadly silence
Like an engine shakes.

Let us step softly and not
Say a word
To those whom we loved
And left behind
And fly away like some
Transparent birds--
Leaving a trace
Of visions
Intertwined.

  January 17, 2019
--Alexander Shaumyan