Category: Poems

Autumn Skin

I see you in the Fall-drenched
mountains and I want nothing
more than to be soaked in you.
I want your autumn hair to
wash over my autumn skin
and soak up the hubris
of my aspirations.

I want to drink the inspiration
dripping from your skin. With you,
I want to feel my cyclical
suffering, but not, for once,
because I hope you can
take it from me.

Instead, as a refreshing change
of season, it’s finally okay to let
darkness lay itself bare.

Knots

Lying in bed, I imagine the small spider on the roof lowering itself onto my lips and crawling into my nose. Up, back, and down my throat it goes, till it reaches a spot it likes and threads a little web. Does web stick to esophagus? If I swallowed food now, would it penetrate the web? Or would I choke and gag while the little spider enjoyed my meal?

The knot in my chest burns again as I stretch my arm above my head. It’s skin cancer. No it isn’t. Yes, yes it is, why else would it still burn after a night’s rest? No, its a knot. Its a knot. Its a knot.

Distorted Reflection

Seeing your distorted reflection in the window

Makes me think this is how it’s gonna be now.

Change will come, change will come, change has come.

Trust me, I’m happy, for you, at least.

We’ve had our time, it’s gone and passed.

I knew these times would never last,

Yet somehow I held on to hope

That by the time it came around

The capacity and strength to cope

Would well up, would abound

Yet now this day’s come,

And here I am.

How disappointing.

Drive

I drive with a blissful melancholy in my head. Chin on fist, elbow on door, there is no rush in me. Finally becoming friendly with the speed limit as I let the others merge, we blend together into one potential disaster. Not today.

Mountains and snow make perfection on the horizon. Nothing longs to be understood, everything to be loved. My life in my hands and those of the traveling souls around me, it continues. It always does. It always does.