I strip naked 
stand at waters
edge and gaze
not into water
for water can 
never be seen 
water only reflects
or it contains 
but water by
itself is nothing 
much like me
I do suppose 
without you without 
you I’m invisible 
just another thought 
no different than 
the breezy humidity 
that clings and 
dampens other things 
but with you 
I being water
become so much 
quench bathe mirror 

Most people leave 
those who’ve gone 
need to stay
where they’ve started 
not where they’d 
left for left
wasn’t going right 
leaving is easier 
for what’s left
will never be 
right things usually 
go south but 
what’s left will 
never go anywhere 

Static is gone 
replaced by hum 
and soon song
once I remember 
the lyrics this 
is how life
goes once you 
leave your job 
and start living 
be it night 
be it weekend 
and even vacation 
but the chorus 
really kicks in 
when you’ve said 
goodbye to work 
for the very 
last time and 
hello to life 
after job life 
when your leisure 
is your 9-5

I remember my dad
saying to his house 
when leaving and when 
returning goodbye house hello
house I have adopted 
that and also added
good morning house good 
night house when you 
love something or even 
someone despite people telling 
you that it can’t 
hear always say something 
because you never know 
whether or not you’ll
ever see it again 

If there’s one 
thing that nobody 
seems to miss 
is a nightmare 
so then why 
do some people 
regurgitate their pasts
like a game 
of bar dice
shaking and shaking 
and then tossing 
expecting some outcome 
beyond what’s possible 
there are just 
so many dice
in a cup 
and just so 
many dots on
a dice so
what do they 
expect to roll
like their pasts
how many nightmares 
does one need 
to have before 
one accepts that 
their pasts will 
never be anything 
beyond a nightmare