MANIC DEPRESSIVE

By Daniel Harmon

Your smiling aura
Glows against the neon
Shifting
From cherry to peach

Your laughter is quick
And frees the heart
As it dances
Across your lips

Then, serious eyes
Give depth to a darkness
That curves
Around the shoulders

And shudders
Down your back
As the polish
On your trembling fingers

Crawls past
Violet passions
And fades
To midnight black.