Julien Aklei - Fade Away

Just when I thought I'd seen everything

A dragon swirled out of the sky.

His tail trailed behind him like ink

Spelling 'dragon' across the sky.



I touched a scale- it was shiny and soft,

So I touched him again and again.

He breathed fire so deep into me

Smoke was pouring from my skin.



I would have mounted on his back,

But he was delicate and high.

I just stood there, six feet tall,

Gazing in his western eye.



Ain't nothing here I want to fade away,

Nothing here I want to rise above--

You and Me could be like soldiers MAKING LOVE.



My mind's eye can still recall

The ivy that grew by your door.

I don't forget the day it curled

To grow back into the earth.



Burrowing down through the soft earth.

Like snake sliding down through a hole.

In the darkness I could feel the ivy

Sliding down like a snake through a hole.



Drawn to the earth's red belly like

A hawk screaming down from the sky.

In my dreams that vine and I

Would crisscross in Shanghai.



Ain't nothing here I want to fade away,

Nothing here I want to rise above--

You and Me could be like soldiers MAKING LOVE.



I can't see no one in this room

But the clear brown eyes of you.

The fire escape creeps out the window,

The sky hides behind a crescent moon.



My jacket is hung on the doorknob,

So there's nothing to touch here but you.

Your car keys are lying behind me on the floor,

So there's no way out but to just push through.



When teacher taught us bout dust to dust

And how nothing continues on.

I remember her shining like the sun

Shining on and on and on and on and on.



Ain't nothing here I want to fade away,

Nothing here I want to rise above--

You and Me could be like soldiers MAKING LOVE.