10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind |
because i don’t know It yet You won’t even let me talk Directly to you Won’t listen or approve Can I get an aside As if To whisper in your guarded ear, describe What I see, experience To make you feel...something? But in code? Okay, Use an allegory, metaphors Personify and disconnect? From this realm I’ve been running from? And look back at it like... Massive, furred forearms flailing As bared teeth gnash So close a nose can taste it’s breath? Show you...fear That this process is making me realize Stuff For you that removed Ambition, hope... Forget cliche dreams that left Before the first gray whisker That you pointed out, I might add. I’ve long given up doing dishes Cleaning the John, running a vacuum Let’s not forget clotted gutters Where a once useful ladder could go — The manly things to do before Snow, ice and forgotten leaves could remind Another forgetful season closes Before we can snuggle under the sheets I’m in my bed before or after You arrive, you who nods off in seconds That I tiptoe around As I imagine growing shapes on the walls — that I could, that I would (Not that I should) Describe for you with waning imagination I used to like a cold bed Still share it For how long? It was either this or an ode to attending to a fungal toe...nail? |