Fiend
Blinking trying to catch
Clear sight I sin
Foggy I might just sleep
No I think ill weep
Wait
If I sleep then weeping won’t invade then
I reluctantly awaken
I fake a smile or two for fear
And i drink hope
I cope these days with
That salty drink
I gulp it like I am walking through a desert
A sandy acrid desert
Give me another drink
I think it helps
I like the sound it makes going down
My frown turning right side up
It takes me coping to swallow hope so big these days
I am choking on my memory vomit
chug hope fast swallow enough
to quench
I’m buying this round
Gulp gulp
Another vowel please
Spelling the words I crave
P_ac_ _t L_st
Clue?
To stave off the doldrums and sorrow
I require examination
I perspire in anticipation
Where is that sanity invitation?
I misplaced it somehow
I pay attention long enough to master a thought
Oh I remember the game
Picking up my shame I gather it fast
As I want no one to see
Me tumble and fall
Gathering hard shards of trouble laying all over
Like tiny rubble no one can see but sharp
Enough to cut me
Up
To another place
Ok
One where my face is up and all the
Things around me are a light evening summer
Supper for her hungry soul
I gulp that down to
looking for gods’ spirit
Shattered and torn my face dropped beauty’s cadence
Stopped me dead long ago
She is my friend
She taught me to see the bright side of life
Her naivety bought me
That one way ticket to a fall
A fettering mind shattering at a predators feast
Splattered
Sprawled out vulnerable
And she played there
In it all