What do you do
when doing what you
did doesn’t work anymore
What do you think
what do you try
Have I finally finally
found the end of
the rope having followed
it all these years
no rope is a
rainbow at the end
of which one finds
gold Oh no the
end of the rope
is far less promising
So what does one
do when doing what
one knows doesn’t work
You let go of
the rope which while
scary is better than
being hung by it
Category: Love
It
It’s avoiding me now
love love is avoiding
me now it skitters
scampers and slides gleefully
teasing and tauntingly away
from me like some
feral cat or spoiled
child calling haha you
can’t catch me stupid
So I mope I sit
and I mope singing
woe is me and
I swear off this
obnoxious game of tag
for even in tag
sometimes I’m it but
love I never am
AlwaysDoes
I didn’t think I
was but I am
I thought by thinking
that I wasn’t then
I really wasn’t but
when in fact and
in reality I am
I am looking for
love again but having
looked for it before
and it not being
true my looking is
now shielded as though
I haven’t yet discovered
the bomb but know
it’s there so I’m
already covering my eyes
Oh please don’t let
it hurt this time
for my body now
is less of me
and more the shrapnel
I’ve absorbed by way
of the previous explosions
Day
The day started early
as days are known
to do filled with
promises and with problems
promises of mine and
problems of others but
this day like every
other day is sure
to be filled with
laughter and with disappointment
as we all know
that days are only
ever really about us
Family
The lights of night
in the city and
its sounds are like
two attention starved brothers
one the lights quiet
calm and studious while
the other the sounds
are raucous bold and
defiant the sounds requiring
immediate attention while the
lights tend to be
satisfied by themselves the
sounds only increase with
age taunting howling as
the day grows hotter
while the lights politely
give way to the
sun and finally disappear
