how strange the moments are that lead to lies -- those parts we don't acknowledge, or discuss -- or how our fantasies can play us false, or why we think that dynamite will not explode on us
Tag: Regret
Dearth and Main
Down at the corner of Dearth and Main,
I saw a spectre wait again
For someone lost and gone before
Through love’s wide window or death’s dark door.
She comes there to stand in expectancy
And a feeling of pity comes over me
That the loyal dead know more of life
Than many a husband, many a wife,
But the wind sings the city to poisoned sleep,
And the heart that forgets still remembers deep,
For it’s only the good that can cause such pain,
When your down on the corner of Dearth
And Main
To share is human:
on this, this day
on this,
this day,
how long it’s been,
my heart explodes within my chest
for you,
you were my ground and sky,
the ling’ring scent I loved the best
but this I’ve dreaded,
low and long,
to see you once again and know
that you,
you were my everything,
that I held close and then
let go
To share is human:
Across the road in fields
Across the road in fields I went
To see a world I didn’t know;
And down a lonely winding road
I happened then to lately go
And saw you there out in the fields,
A vision clothed in loveliness;
I see you now, where e’er I am,
For it’s you on whom I obsess —
Across a hundred different farms
I drive until the day goes dark:
But it’s still you I always see
With every glint and every spark
Across the road in fields I went
My every waking minute spent
In searching for that magic place
Where I’ll no longer see
Your face
To share is human:
Door 13
I always thought
If I’d the key
I’d open Door 13
Behind which
Lies the secret
Of the man I might have been
It’s up there
Lying somewhere
In the corner of my mind
The door
To some reality
That I could never find
The thrill of heart
I wanted
Out beyond this dull routine
The golden key
To show me
How to get past
Door 13
(Inspired by this prompt.)
To share is human:
The Test
That test you took the other day –
The one you didn’t study for –
It turns out it was pass or fail
And now your life has flipped
And now it has to be this way
You closed and locked and burned that door
And every first and last detail
Of that abandoned script
That test you took the other day –
The one you really paid no mind –
It doesn’t matter anyway
It’s just a life you’ve left behind
To share is human:
The Broken Chair
Years ago a troubled boy
Sat upon this chair
At the time, he didn’t know
Just why he was there
And the very walls, it seemed
Made a kind of jail
Sent to this imposing place
Seemingly, to fail
It intimidates no more
In this later year
Broken now the old chair sits
Bent by dint of fear
To share is human:
the wind cries tonight …
the wind cries tonight
it knows what we’ve been doing
and does not approve
for mercy’s sake
we have to change our ways
we must give way
i love you
but you must know too
we should stop
right here
while we still can
right now
please
this last thing
please
