we budget time,
add yesterday
divide distance
by time
multiply someday
by maybe
and subtract
soon
the washing machine drains
into the sudden silence
the laundry cannot wait
today i do not pray for you
but sit with folded hands
my sleep begins
to suffer
i hold you hostage
for my own safekeeping
turn lights off
open the eastern window
listen
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Comments
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I love your poetry. So much..
What a quiet moment here,..this poem is silent to me. Thinking....and thinking about so much...accounting for everything in life until now & future...and you open the window to drown out your thoughts.
This is excellent.
I love:
my sleep begins
to suffer
i hold you hostage
for my own safekeeping
(suggestion: do not use the word 'time' twice in the first 4 short lines...it does sound repetitive..)
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you're right. i'll have to think of what to do there... it's not coming to me. lol. it will.
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