The silhouette of your smoke
was so fine to behold
the way it filled your eyes
with the embers of your heart
burning like a funeral pyre
flames lick up the drops I knew
you were shut up in the cellar
rows and rows of bottled beauty
waiting to be uncorked
the corkscrew buried in a dark drawer
I got lost
my smoke-filled eyes gazing
at your full smoke face
a whole world's smoke in you,
a lava flow of eyes
a lava flow of eyes
cascading through your wilderness with fire
and fires on all cylinders an engine
you can't control the lava lanes
with your fire dance
I dance all night
just for you, darling
don't forget me
when your smoke rolls out over the Pacific
and you feel her whitecaps
grabbing at the hem of your skirt
don't forget me when voices trail off and on
through your radio, your heart
beat beating off our dial
don't forget me when that smoke
of adventure suddenly clears
and the sneer of control
casts a long silent look upon you
remember, darling, we are here
on the shore dreaming
oh Amelia dear
I waited and strained
over the Pacific tonight
trying to make your fair smoke
out of the clouds that appeared.
I heard the hum of your engines
saw your sparkling chrome body
the exaltation of flashbulbs, champagne
we will toast to everything lost at sea
to freedom
to love
to hell
to air
*Inspired by the movie "Amelia" 2008 with Richard Gere and Hilary Swank.
