Out of Place Love
Breaking Up
When I tell you my version of life
You will never have known me
Experience reveals
That love is my downfall
It leaves my heart empty
My hand holding someone
That has already left
My head is overweight
I don't know how to be here
Everything is in it's place except me
I have become someone else
Flung into silence like a silence of pain
Indifferent to, unaware of life
What light there is
The world catches and holds
I have been waiting for this particular silence
With its messages from the dark
That brings back the misery
Or wakes up the ignorant
Every picture held in thought is silently real
Moved in so many ways at once
The same and always different.
Dreams
Negotiating dreams
This is what it means to be human
I feel love evading me
I scrutinize small things
I require that the past be kept back
To finish dying without me
I push together clumsy words that don't fit
Make promises I can't keep
We made a knot that did not hold
In this strange place that I invent
Forever must be over.
