Poem to a Pegasus

Poem to a Pegasus

by Gabriella Doria

Don’t believe that you will ever leave with the stars.

Or with the hot summer heat,

Or with the delicate twinkles of rainfall.

Don’t jump for the stars

For you will land in black soil

And be forced to make friends with exiled silk worms

And underground lovers.

Don’t be fooled by the light

That may drip and seep through the cracks

In the Earth’s cruel crust.

You will remain underground.

Dream not of Heaven, Zion or Elysium.

For hopeful thinking

unfurls nothing but

poison fruits.

Watch in awe as death tempts you with vision.

I see a cosmos

In your wide unblinking eyes.

You wish to see magic not shadows.

But you must not fear the dark,

For I will bury you in colours.