Monday, May 4, 2015

somewhere over the lonely sea


somewhere over the lonely sea
i rhyme the words that rescue me
trying hard to rewrite words
that no one else has ever heard
 
somewhere over the lonely sea
i write the words that rewrite me
and offer nothing more than words
that linger like a lash incurred
 
a welt that’s dealt and always felt
from words that double as a belt
and wring the cries of yesteryear
wherein the lies revealed the fear
 
that love was wrecked and cast ashore
with nothing left to answer for
survival is the daily plan
devolving to a heidelberg man
 
and words construct hepatic ducts
a fantasy that we conduct
that more is less and less is more
i’m walls and ceiling and a floor
 
when all i really ever am
are words that won’t define a man
but words i speak and words i spoke
we’re to invoke and to provoke
a love for me within my words
it must be that the lines were blurred
 
somewhere over the lonely sea
not across but in-between
not in the west or in the east
my words alone are at the feast
 
the final frame after i dine
they find my frame lying supine
with all my words surrounding me
as ashes for the lonely sea
 
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