KRYLON KING Part 1 (Meet)

Back when I owned the world    
   
Too young to know that I could be    
Bought    
Sold    
and Leased    
As needed    
   
I found voice in Krylon microphones    
The rainbows within these ebony shoals echoed from rooftops and tunnels    
I owned buildings on Park Place    
and Atlantic Avenue too    
My railroads ran through Harlem    
all the way to the Coney Island Boardwalk    
   
I still remember that summer morn you took over my world    
Honey and caramel lacquered over flesh were your only armor    
Your freckles looked like humming birds had kissed your cheeks    
Your almond eyes were to be the ones to heal parts of me not yet broken    
and make crumble the man I thought would be indestructible    
   
I remember everything and nothing of what we said that first day    
Except my promise to give you the world    
You laughed, Oh please    
Because you'd heard these declarations from boys and men before    
   
The next day    
You were going to school, waiting on the platform    
I watched you, unseen    
The steel dragon rumbled in on time    
   
You saw it right away    
Your name    
stretched out over silvery skin    
the length of car 0715    
   
I asked    
Could I share you're train today?    
You giggled and let a few others join us too    
   
So began the odyssey    
In and out of the light    
Fast starts and hard stops    
So many people riding with us    
crowding us    
dividing us    
   
And while the world is no longer mine to give    
My heart still is    
as long as you're still willing to ride    
In and out of the light    
 
Presented in the Love Monuments challenge hosted by vizard; received runner-up recognition.