Thursday, November 20, 2014

lingering in listless listening


last night i roamed with a shadow

a bitter man with nothing to show

kept complaining about all he had done

and how it had never been appreciated

 

i kept trying to get him to take another drink

my tongue always on the brink

of wanting to ask him why he had an expectation

of fairness, of justice

 

quantum mechanics is where i quandary

the only invisible thing in which i believe

acceptance of the accident

is my only mantra

 

live like life is short

the rest be damned

yet here i am

knowing that connection is out of reach

 

so few, if any, perceive that it is all perception

and this one truth will circumvent the deception

that disappointment is the result of expectation

that there is a dispensary somewhere with a distributor

 

he kept talking

i kept walking

with no desire to convey

that it was a life time of loss and disappointment

that lead me here

to the dark streets of decay

 

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