2024.12

Sore feet on pavement
Walled in by the road ahead
How long has it been
Since I've seen another soul
Walking the same path as me

2023.80

I'm broken again
The mechanics aren't upset
Just disappointed

Sometimes I need a
Reminder that I'm alive
And not all boxed up

Nearly halfway there
Rolling down the hill, non-stop
Still far from impact

Dive bar hideaway
Sipping from a frosted glass
Making strangers friends

Warm for so long when
Properly insulated
But not forever

Look like a sweater
Smell like a lazy morning
Beautiful, I say

The unasked questions

And their unspoken answers

Haunt me to no end

I slept through the moment I woke up

And I dreamt it had all changed

The decisions, the choices, The…

But that was a dream

Dripping foam,

Down from below,

Pools in red,

Around my fingers.

A yellow sky

Blots out the moon,

As a field of Daffodils

Cries out a sad song.

The dreamstate ends,

And is soon forgotten,

And is replaced

By yet another dreamstate.

Each a link

In the unbroken chain

Of waking

And of dreaming.