Scraggly Punk Girl by Supernova-Exploding
Scraggly punk girl
with your light-up smile
You've showered love,
healing light, and
punch-drunk rowdiness
4000 goddamn miles.
Your wool socks stuffed in
hiking boots clunk
Sporting crimson clown nose
and a top hat to busk.
Dirty and disheveled with an
uneven tan
You always glowed beneath the sun.
Baby you've slept under
every bridge in this city
Hitched across Canada
in the dead of winter
The warmth in your eyes
made me believe
you had a fire inside
that kept you alive.
Dancing, juggling, givin' us jigs
Rockin' the blues harp, you
made love to the strings
Guitar, banjo, even a mandolin
I would give anything
to hear you sing again.
Scraggly punk girl
At home around the fire
Coyote baby howling
became one with the skies
A folk-punk Joplin but
born in the 80s
Your voice crescendoing
lifted us with you
your mischievous grin
laughing and crooning
All we need is loooove
and food
and booze, and pot
and cigarettes
and tunes
But mostly just looooove!
You sliced off the bottom
layer of dreadlocks and
stitched them onto the others.
Shaved underneath with double the length
Representin' your heart
Rainbow gradient, faded, abused
Tangled beer bottle caps and beads.
Scraggly punk girl
You once told me
Never take on the road
what you can't stand losing
I should never have asked you
to take me but
I couldn't bear you leave me behind.
I would give anything for adventure if you would give everything for love.
I love it, E!
ReplyDeleteI remember this one from when you first put it up - great images, and so much heart shining through! And now it's got a really funky flow that really does it for me ;)
-Zacharias