Thursday, July 30, 2020

Let me find you a longer fall

Let me me find you a longer fall,
one that will break your infatuation with the stars and the soil.
I know your reasons to live are scattered in the glittering grass
because I saw you looking down for which ones might still grow and which had already been eaten.
Know that I will repopulate your sky with
New, more corporate constellations
Let me find you a longer fall
Than the one that starts every day with your waking breath
Graciously allowing you a new chance to re-earn 
your own body over the course of the descent
until your bones smash on the rocks at nightfall again.
Let me find you a longer fall
than the parking lot
than the bedroom floor
from the very best of your highs.
A longer fall than the shame of your broken trust,
than my stone down your cliffside
than skin turned against itself again.
Let me find you

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

No moment

I am skin on scrap metal and thinking about being something sheer over something sharp.

I become suddenly willing to rip myself apart for freedom one more time. One more time, different than the other times, the last time.

I am in deep love with the moment there is nothing left to be afraid of- bold and stupid.

I am at the mercy of a million feelings that defy each other, I am their will to fight. I am the insatiable agnosticism that keeps going.

On a thunderstorm during a new moon I remembered how I find things that are full of life to be beautiful because it's the only survival mechanism I won't live to regret.