A very dear friend
is starting a new
job today at the
young age of sixty
it just confirms that
life is an adventure
and that if anything
we are all but
children on the first
day of school whenever
we start something new
help me to wish
him luck on this
for he like all
of us at one
time or another have
been aboard our ship
embarking to somewhere unknown
while the rest wave
bon voyage from the
safety of the dock
Before
Even before this
before this before
I knew what
so I thought
but now this
before before this
I realized that
I didn’t know
because this before
before this happened
all the other
befores were practice
for this before
EvenMe
When did things
become so important
things that yesterday
never even were
when things yesterday
that you wanted
and that without
you simply couldn’t
wouldn’t be happy
and now that
you do have
you don’t have
when did things
become more important
than even me
HowWickedThis
Why do they always
never fail to find
the one exact breach
where I’m most vulnerable
as though they themselves
built this very wall
to keep them out
when in fact I
did and I guess
that I did hoping
that the one who
cared for me most
would doggedly find it
crippling me yet again
how wicked this love
Been
I feel like
that one sigh
that won’t come
knowing that if
I happened to
then everything else
would be better
but now I
sit here thinking
like the dishrag
on the sink
alone and useless
damp and sour
once having been
