Thursday, November 17, 2022

birthday '22: The Big 40

Trustee old device;
here I sit
one more time,
contemplating your dirty screen,
forcing through
verse and rhyme.

For I can’t write.

Not since
my nasty wound is healed,
my sinister scars
beneath fresh skin
concealed.

Not since
my mornings
of the most cynical taint,
see me wake up
without slightest complaint;

Or my days
in the grip of fate,
keep giving me a reason
to hope
and wait.

I can’t write.

What if it’s time
to bid you adieu?
Because
until my days
regain their familiar
desolate
hue;
and body
and soul
are lacerated
anew,

I can’t write.

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