(2015)
Easy to lament Greatness touched and then gone bu… Few taste it at all
One more meeting Just one more Rendezvous And the courage To speak up
I have been proud I have considered myself wise I have thought that I was Far above The failures of others
There was a day. it was in August we visited your mother in the hospital. Afterwards we wen… to a beach side burger joint.
The million incandescent bulbs that line Gibbs St from Barrett Place to Main go out just after midnight. Stragg… smokers sit or stand in the alley
I can’t help wondering Was that really you Could it have been so High If I could answer
Whether moth to flame Or drawn in like fly to shit You captivate me
There’s a hollow place Where your heart belongs Its vacuous emptiness Drains all compassion Consumes without satiation
I’ve lost it again The words were just there Right on the tip Of my mind Now they’ve descended
It didn’t happen all at once The stress of impact And the heat of friction Combined Has a natural result
I want you Out of my head Out of my heart I want your memory To leave me be
Passions pit perfervid. Smoking cinders, and coals endure petulantly past their prime. Blisters and puss
Life is right judgement Wisdom divides great from small Wrongness has no life
Why won’t it go away This feeling of emptiness That you left in your wake I keep hoping I will get over you It took so little to ensnare you…
Too many times you told me Too many times “if I had known” Too many times “ I wouldn’t do it… Too many times “ I fell too far s… Too many times I never measured u…