some place else to be driftin’…
Posted in Verse on Mar 22nd, 2008
Keep smiling; stay away, you don’t
have to speak a single word,
don’t spoil the lovely nights I worship
when I’m not hurting.
Don’t speak to me
about things you haven’t found
the courage to leave well enough
alone;
it’s way easier
to quit smoking when you’re sick,
harder still to forgive yourself
when you have no one beside you
you trust enough to practice
forgiveness on.
Trust, it’s […]
Posted in Verse on Mar 16th, 2008
my heart counts with fingers
that don’t cooperate at the best of times,
my soul craves a different province,
and my mind is often lost
in abstractions
between.
so how, in the name of all that’s holy,
do you expect me to understand
the texture
of your silences?
i read the words you write,
the poignancies you mutilate
with every revisitation; those tastes
you remember imbibing but don’t […]
