Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Choices
.
it’s not
that I’m not
waiting to hear
from you
any more than
from anyone
who understands
how and why
it’s possible to know
the choices
are ours
to keep
and making them
in harmony
with our better selves
supersedes
mistakes we’ve all made
while waiting
to hear
from everyone
else
before noon
.
.
Know
.
shhh
I can hear you thinking
translating
getting a grip
fathoming
the unfathomable
unflappably picturing
within each picture
a slowing of time
chances slipping away
without consequence
mental gymnastics
rounding off
magically
somewhat drastically
for sights unseen
well between
the here and now
no way to tell
just how far
our minds can go
to justify
what we think
we already know
.
.
Pain
.
dull
unceasing
pain
radiating
stinging
burning
achy
sharp
waves
abrupt
chronic
reaching
unidentifiable
unfamiliar
tender
local
emotional
biting
raging
fading
grating
lasting
massive
undeniable
masked
referred
visceral
deep
squeezing
gnawing
cramping
silent
edgy
temporary
pressing
effective
protective
ignored
forgotten
unrelenting
throbbing
incapacitating
intolerable
mysterious
vanishing
changing
fleeting
processed
treated
deleted
defeated
going
going
gone
.
.
Tonight
.
late
at night
long after darkness
swallowed all the light
when coyotes howl
and raccoons
snarl and scream
at each other
for reasons we don’t want to know
lying awake
thinking about scenes
that should be in dreams
wondering why
earworm lyrics
loop after just two lines
while the person still asleep
snores softly
one pillow away
someone
somewhere
is remembering
the sound of our laughter
when we both got the joke
at the same time
after that awkward delay
that spoke volumes
about how things would work
decades later
a future we never imagined
a lifetime unanticipated
a reach
exceeding both of our grasps
from a time
before we had met
before we knew
before we had any idea
tonight was bound to arrive
.
.
Relative Something 