come to
meet me
i'll be here, as per usual
out on the tip of the very thing
you threw me out for last time
still breakable
but only now i know
the difference
between you and me
and fireflies
and fireworks
and boundaries between
all of these
tangible
thankless miracles of things
past
and curled up around the corners
like me
in your mind maybe now
in the days and the spaces
between sense and absurd making typos now
changing the meaning of things that once
made rhymes of
us and then what fell
on my head
in your hurried exit you forgot to look back
for me
forgiven now
or so it would seem
but only it's still
me
and only now
i know better
than to trust your half-smile
and let your eyes
burn holes through the spaces
where my own used to lie
in my head
and you lied your way
into my heart and my bed
is my witness
unmade and still waiting
with nothing but time
for you to come crawling
back in to
the cracks between what may have once held up
in a court of absurdities and farce and other fake-makers and
you
and still
me
with only time to thank now
for letting the
suffocating crushing obnoxious loud sonic boom blast
get through my eardrums and my spine and the walls
and at last
i'm over the undoing of my own teeth grinding
which once upon a time had to make up for you
and the overwhelming silence
and unspeakable void
left by your absence
and of me
and the still
and what vast untempered planes left within me placed
hopes and dreams of what we could be
and plane crashes and figurines smashed and falling down
from the windowsill ledge and
now left to collect the dust of what was
and what is
you
still thinking
that i am still blinking back tears of
us and regret
over you
silly things like time and space
and barefoot explaining
by cowboys
and writing it down
has changed me somehow
and left the me
that you knew
in the past
with the rest of
us
and you
not even a thought
or a line in my story
which began when you left
me to find out how
i don't need you
at all
and how much better you made me
like mice misplaced maybe or geese and flight lessons
found out in piles of fresh sidewalk snow
in the desert
without you
alone
and reveling
still
in all that is me
without you somehow
sense-making stuff like snowballs and gold
cufflinks and chains of paper planes
falling to the ground
and all that could mean for what's next
and me
here
and now.


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