More than I need to breath
I need this smile
More than I need to eat
I need this smile
More than I need to exist
I need this smile
So that I will not
Fear tomorrow
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If you needed to see this smile,
ReplyDeleteI would not have seen your backside
running for the door in the morning at four.
I thought your self-proclaimed "escape" was
your joyful symbol (a very loud cymbal).
That "escape" was not joyful...
ReplyDeleteit became a journey with a hellish destination,
judging by my present environment.
But you used the word from early on…
DeleteGetting coffee…
Walk…
And OK…
But flight…
must have been a necessary action.
To get away rid from the arid, acrid air.
The concept of "home"
Deletebecame an eclipsing thing
mostly because...but not entirely
due to...the death of a computer
with its replacement from a
zip code i will never go back to...
my previous computer purchases
were all made with Apple "handmaidens"
within very very reachable distances...
but never did I realize what a vast empty shell
I would become until I went "public"
with these pleas from the very bottom of my heart
and the top of my heart and both sides of my heart
and brain also and that thing called a soul
Remember, this smile was a result of looking at you.
ReplyDeleteThat is something I will never ever forget!
DeleteA Cute Skunk Named Flower
ReplyDeleteShe today harbors a primal scream.
Forget words in a haranguing email.
People disappear all the time, it seems.
Would he notice in a year? Memories fail.
No real beam to bolster. A broken team.
The us of was isn't the of us now
I float trying to face the reality of
Paulessness.
Not across a table sharing lowcost coffee
Not anywhere seen or heard by me
Sniffing roses very pretty very happily
Without me.
Please note:
ReplyDeleteThe unseen rose
to which the poet refers
was sniffed by the disappearing act
to which the poet refers.
The rose did not make him happy:
It made him hopeful.
So be it.