Monday, March 26, 2007 C.E

seven years of knowing you
and I gave you
a title less deserved,
a title never earned.

I think you change my life.
but in all this time
the only thing I've learned
is how it feels to fall behind.
how it feels to break your mind.

Tonight I sleep,
perchance to dream.
Wipe the world away from my cheek.
I am noble to suffer in mind
if only it were mine

Sunday, March 18, 2007 C.E

reminded by reading

it's simple.
I never tell.
I don't tell because i don't believe. in what I'm saying, yes. in any response you would follow it with, no.
other than the obvious.
we had a forgettable friendship. forgettable, because it's been six months since we've spoken, any kind of communication. email. phone. nothing. you've forgotten me.
But I read over something from last year, about a night we spent drinking wine in the basement, talking existential bullshit, and I remembered some signs. signs that you won't remember, with many delusional thoughts that I put behind them, but I remember them. and some of them were from your personality.
You knew a part of me then. you knew that I would always come back to you, but only when I felt a had something to show for it.
You're expecting me again. at least, someday you might wonder where I am, and know that I'm building up to the big reunion, and that it COULD be a great thing to see. could be.
and I know you're doing the same.

in the meantime, it doesn't matter what I feel. you're feeling something else, in a world I only imagine at night. you're living a new life that I can't get into. it's a secret club now.
so don't worry about it. just enjoy it. someday i'll run into you on the street in the city, and I can tell you what I'm doing, how I'm feeling.
I'm better now. and I will be then too. I have only myself, and I will make the most of it, for that is all there is of me.

Thursday, March 15, 2007 C.E

letter words

The same words are inside my head.
where else would they go,
in through the ears,
out with the blood?

no wind took them away from me,
no words of yours set them free.
captions of four,
five letter words,
circling my head.
carcass for the birds.

I'm still awake and pinching myself-
tearing away at these seams.
this skin I touch
not the truant in my dreams.

no kiss for me to sooth the burn
no wave of touch, a river to churn
pieces of me,
food for the birds.
fly out of hell,
four letter words.