17

How dare you.

Damn you for loving me again.

All alone with myself

for so very long.

Living in my fantasies

surviving our past.

Then you yank me out

into the fresh air

and you shock me with it.

Warm and Sunny.

It feels chocolate~y smooth

touching me all over

even down in the tiny cracks

and potholes where I left myself.

To rot.

Damn you for holding my hand

pulling me free from the mire.

That sucking, stinking slop.

Pulling me to your heart.

Smashing your love

into my soul

stepping back

brushing the hair from my eyes

kissing my forehead…

Ohhh, sooooo tenderly…

Damn you for shoving me back in.

Holding me under~

and sprinting away…

(invisibly)

Again.

#22 – Blue Star (The Night is for Sleeping)

blue stars dance with god and kin
helping people believe,
on the morrow, it may begin
They live the night
in the scarlet of his morn
and progress through the years
forgetting to be born
How silly sounding we mortals be
as we offer wants
in lieu of plea

Favorite Books

These are the special ones

Read and re-read

Spines cracked and pages creased

They travel with me

They are the first to be packed

Upon the occasion of a move

Yes, these must come with me

These I hold to my heart

Even if I became a nomad

These would sit on my pack mule’s back

Wandering with me through the world

False Identity – Number 17

welcome home, she demanded

and dreamed she had wrestled

her dog into accepting ten old

thank yous to secure everyday

silence when taking her child’s

Metrocard crying, he never says

you are welcome when I lose

every gift I have stolen tearing

up what silence she whistled

when she heard everyone leaving

crumbs where no one ate cheese

in place of grace and piety at home.

Prompts

Losing prompts

Prompting myself

I saw the end

At the beginning

I see it now again

The finish line

The ribbon beckons my chest

Prompt or no prompt

Dear end

Here i come

The Last Box

I am saving one box

To be the last box

The last one that I open

And slowly unpack

The last one that I pull apart

And find places for things to go

 

It’s the box of breakable things

The box of unnecessary things

The box that is the final touch

The collection of knick-knacks

That I have cultivated over the years

 

When this last box is unpacked

I know I am home

Rains

love rain
it washes everything
everything is exposed
free of all the bindings