Thursday, December 9, 2021

I Hate Liking Us, I Love Hating Us

 

upon early grayness, coals pouring in, it’s been painful; some bland explanation, courage to awaken, felt for furious, framed in successes, too inferior on the inside.

hold the ropes, loosen the noose, return me to paradise; so convoluted, one never knows, beyond hopes, expectation, crimes against self.

if more warriors, more fiats, wild ways we ignore authority.

some person, red hair, auburn trims, angry, dying, so much in my soul—to have lived, like three months, perceived as a stillborn; the rage burns, lemon-blonde angst, suffering more love.

without those tales, life would be empty, giving one person tension, tasers, tattoos—grief.

wanting so much, to enter so softly, pure gentility in mad folks; woman of the piccolo, man of the flute, eating dates, conversing all evening.

amazed how we suffer, needing gentility, so rough around edges.

hurting in spaces, melancholic auras, so low it felt tender; to have depression, to tend to reality, to push to touch sunlight; so murky, so proud, clashing with attraction;

or angry, too much, to actually taste/face another soul.

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