Somewhere
I’m waiting;
delusional of hope
counting,
counter clockwise
twelve
eleven
ten
ticking,
repeat
to those muffled screams,
Burn me,
alive!
where blood slips through my veins
in your puce imaginations,
I’ve cried
like a hurricane;
shake me down
till I spout you out.
drainage working cycles
to pick you up again,
I choose the inferno,
living in her basement.
where in her kind words
I’ve hidden
cast from my own mind,
fear be thy name
and I be but a coward;
what will I feel next?
Smothered to the dials
your hand grasping
the switch,
turn me out.
Tipping your hat like a new trend
recycle
recycle
but alas
I’m nonrenewable,
Shall I call
to your back hand
meeting my cheek,
love me
when flesh hears thunder
and sees the gapes imprinted
on agony’s mark.
drifting away
to drift away
I char
within your heart
once owned.
but
I can’t say I didn’t know
for intuition
leaves a burden of mistrust,
when I loved you,
more than I could love myself;
when I still do.


I'm honored. 






my dear


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