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10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#991359 added August 23, 2020 at 8:55am
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Just a Carbon(ite) Life Form
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.


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