When I look inside of you 
Into the very depths of you
Do you know what I see? 
Two stormy mushroom clouds 
Looming wetly in your eyes 
Grey harbingers of doom
They roil and linger in the room
I’m afraid; I’m mesmerized 
Then Boom! Everything is gone 
In the ferocity 
Of your atom bomb 
Atomic, Anatomic, Catatonic 
The fearsome stillness after the storm 
Your atoms ravaged out of form

When I look inside of you
I see vanquished fields beneath
The clouds of smoke and acid rain
I see the skeletons of trees 
The mucid ashes of flowers and bees
They were rustling, bustling, hustling
Their atoms dancing merrily 
You plucked each atom from its orbit
In the fierceness
Of your tragedy 
Calamity, Catastrophe
You heaved your mighty weight upon it 
Smote your world beneath your feet

When I look inside of you
I see the heaving cosmos 
Suns and planets whirling, swirling 
In the vast blue-blackness
Meteors like fireworks 
Blazing exultant trails 
Shimmering tails, Star-burnished sails
The firmament a holy grail
You crush the heavens in your fist 
You flick your angry blue-bruised wrist 
The sky comes crashing down 
Molten lava on the ground
Seismic vapor all around 
I can taste it in my mouth

But when I look at you from here
You sit there statue-still 
Not an eyelash moves at all
You are transparent, mystical 
Ethereal, Apparitional
But within 
Clandestine, Hidden
There are raging storms 
Carrying sand and ice alike 
I feel a chill in my bones 
And all of hell’s feverous might 
And all the while you look at me 
Your skin shrouded in serenity 
While in a loop, relentlessly 
You break and shatter on the inside.