I finished Boy Band by Jacqueline Smith earlier today and I have to tell you the book is incredible. My favorite part however is the songs she wrote. They are beautiful and I wish everyone sang them on the radio. But I did something I haven’t really done before: I wrote a poem inspired by her lyrics as I read. This was the result.
Stay with Me
stay with me above
the velvet air; my fingers
spaced apart, your starlight
hand takes mine,
a world of constellations
fills the spaces
northern lights on fire
in the sky and girls like her
define reality
snowlight, summer sunsets
time is flying, sing to me
please dance like gold and
sweet perfume
interweaved and twisted
right hand, yellow
back on torso
she’s in love with autumn leaves, but
snow has always made me think of you,
he says as lights shine on the Midway
love will find her come what may,
the zephyrs sing, open up your heart,
remember June; let me be immortal words
made of blue eyes in the kind
september.
I never was a song of night
renowned for beauty
but I know that we will
be together when the
night is falling down
these city lights.
she’s waiting.
© Ben Ditmars 2015
The Midnight Writer 