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Black Breath (Cheating Life) Sorry life if I cheated you, didn’t die young. Sorry that I didn’t careen cliff sides narrowly missing the rocks and open sea inviting me to plummet down. I have visited you; but was likely overlooked, the loner lingering beneath the umbrella woods, hiding from sunrises, glimpsing sunsets with regret. Sorry that I cheated myself, didn’t search for a truer love to lend my lips. Sorry that I didn't skywrite her name on blue, tug at the hopeful hearts, tears from crystal eyes. They long to live more passionately than I ever dreamt. Why didn’t I try? Was it because you devilishly dare too much? Impulsive, swim against river currents, dive beneath their tow? Sorry I cheated this life, didn’t take chances like those fools running naked into the night amid toothsome evils. Sorry I cannot hide this fear to live afresh. I wasted so much time, the horizon now fading. Clouds like fingers curled beckon a boy too old; digits spared from the sharp swords not juggled. I come to the edge of another cliff in my mind. I stare deep down inside a dried up well. I wait for the 18th degree of angle to draw at very last black breath. 8.22.20 Responding to lyrics of a modern song using the cliché line about dying young. Struck me as an idiotic convention to live life like there’s no tomorrow, when it’s obviously a narrative people buy into to throw caution to the wind and go in debt...that’s what I wanted to include in the poem. |