Friday, August 23, 2013

  • sometimes you lose yourself
    in the middle of a
    talk with friends who wish
    to come to your
    succor

    they'd say they are concerned
    and show their love on that drink
    and stories about other people's lives
    as examples of bitterness turning
    otherwise
    about how love cures a broken heart
    about how one must rise to a fall
    and be whole again
    courageous to face the storm and
    the usual trials

    you oblige with attentive listening
    but for how long? you measure it
    with the cups of coffee, saucers of
    peanuts, beef loaves, barbecue sticks,
    and those long-necked bottles of gin
    and slices of lemons and pinches of salt

    and then all of them are drunk except you
    who still thinks
    sober still, clear as cellophane bag,
    you begin to travel alone in your thoughts
    far far away
    trying to reach still the one you love
    but who never loves you still.

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