(2014)
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
My heart was paper now folded six times over to make it harder to tear I only hope that
The hands of this watch haven’t moved since the last time you did and I’m not sure if I’m ready to hear the ticking
Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
