Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Inside Out

He dreams a vision, a bulwark vision, and encounters visions.
Life is sullen a day, a mirrored force, gripping a pants’ leg.
He rubs up—for down, shaking pills. If only a heart, to see
for plight, reaching for skies. Days are haunted, to blare
Rihanna, needled with splinters. He’s a thousand theories,
and screaming, “Why,” two pits a death. Oh for unborn,
peering at wombs, to choose a mother. He envies it not, to
dig for trenches, enlove with love. Nights are waves, for
soaring hearts, written in psyches. He feels a pulse, a tad bit
dazed, for childhood pictures. He knows her eyes, to glare
in mirrors, to carry her illness. The weeks are fey, for
months of forces, to renew annually; and what for music,
to scrape for souls, a man partly dull. The earth has paused,
a daughter laughs, as loud as an inner wound. He’s purple a
tear, as beige as winds, to remember a summer. He thought
to smile, and kneed the floor, speaking in similes; for pain
is rivers, and dark denims, for tea time blues; and what for
passion, to barely die, alive in parts. He hassles not, for
life raptures, where feelings blurt a prayer.     

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