To think you will live forever, unaffected
is to
expend borrowed energies
bow to kiss your own feet
and raise your voice
to sing the saddest song
known
to angels
And
to thieve forever
is to
pull at the breeze
hold onto nothing
erase yesterday
to
rob from Peter / to ignore Paul
If I were a bird I'd
clip my wings but
I'm not -
a man instead
and so
I'll break my legs
to remain
here aware
of morning
come away
fall
back asleep
beyond the break where
the sea is settled, resolved
to swallow sailors
and lives unwholly put
together
W E A L L H U R T
deep within on this path to know ourselves better we sacrifice opportunities and encase our own hearts by foregoing ugly things such as doubt and suffering fearful we reach a point where we hurt so badly that we awake and so instead we sleep and annihilate our hearts each morning for breakfast. we are the killers lurking within stealing each tear so that our smiles never persuade you otherwise. maybe we should turn left at this next bend in the day.
image: Left, by Piermario; licensed by CC 2.0