Monday, January 9, 2023

Die & Live Again

 

The wrong decisions, never portending existence, the pain you give; a town filled with laughter, a man crawling, the dung smells sweet; running backwards, fueled for losing, to have won a privilege.

           

A soul feeling sadness, ignoring the obvious, with one neither love nor hate, neither kiss nor poison, so infectious, as it wavers from light to darkness, upon a whisper.

           

They can’t leave it alone, they need it to crumble, it neither tries nor denies, it just is; something tender, those vocals, as singing to win, a town learning to see itself.

 

A sad song, a TKO, running into water; shocked to love, never believed it wins, with many sacrificing soul, art, with angst bleeding; trying to control it, losing my grip, too vulnerable to feel comforts.

 

Love woops the whip, so many private deaths, to receive all he needs, with Love begging her heart.

 

I slept a week, neither did I eat, longing for mystery, joys, sorrows, and forgot to ask favor.

 

            I was at a creek, deep inside, wondering if it’s different in the islands; needing to say perfection, needing to reach soul, while too forgetful to adore winning; if it was as advertised, some great product, so significant, so lost, so in love, those anxieties to rest, bodies clashing, the sun inverted and begging for baptism.

 

            Lord Knows!

 

            I never took it literally. I thought it passing fancy. Something in a moment fraught by earnest wishes. To mean it in that second, to hit a corner, to sense a connection, so fleeting, so remarkable, to let go, to hold tightly, to die and live again.

 

Flying was made a curse. Longing was made a feeling. Emotion churning a sip, wine-stained lips, looking bashful.

 

The noise in souls, it distracts the atmosphere, keeping company, for it hurts to be wishing—so alone, so crowded, one asks questions.

Strumming a Harp

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