Uncategorized

sometimes all you can do is laugh
as the vultures circle overhead

as the wolves howl
and regroup

as the cities burn
and love evaporates

as you slowly drown
inside your self
with your favorite pair of shoes
slipping off
your dumb,
kicking feet

 

 

You stole off in the early morning
running down the sunrise
and all its promised glory

while I slept in, stuck to the sheets
tangled up in bad dreams and
foreboding images of the nights
we’d spiral out of control
in that little apartment.

Kokomi,
I’m sorry.

I never did find the words
that I wanted to give you.

I lost myself looking for them
wandering among the hills
of my landfill heart.

Kokomi,
please believe
I never meant to leave
a rough sky hanging over you.

 

 

 

You go and
you go and
you keep
going

then you get
old and
too old and

-suddenly-

it’s over

and they just
put you
in the ground

and they
go on
and on
without you

they keep
going

impatiently
waiting
for their turn
to arrive