Some people’s kids

Hey idiot
What do you hope to gain by being an asshole
What possible benefit
Maybe you are looking to get beat up
Or fired
Maybe you are just a product of a soft life
You can’t conceive of someone doing anything about your insults
Now your manager gets a complaint
In my youth
We would have danced in blood and darkness
You are a fool
Not long for this life

Remembering the dawn

Early morning sunset casts light through water spattered glass
Diffuse light falls on skin
On hair turned honey in the dawn of the day
Sleep drifts through our window
Late nights and later meals
The rise and fall
Watching you breath feels voyeuristic
Watching as each breathe ends in a small snore
Cute kitten snores that you never believe happens
Like cats curled in the rising heat of the day
I sleep
Touching you
Making sure
you
are real

First tears fall

Ethereal tones steal into my heart
Ritual demands
Feather kisses along spine
Choices made and remade
Cold seeps in
Memories cement
Cherished forever
Your lips on mine

Try again?

Looking back, I wonder
I wonder why I allowed situations where I was in so much pain
I wonder at feeling those highs when the lows lasted for so much longer
I wonder why do I want someone to eat with me when I so much enjoy sitting alone at the restaurant, eating at my slow pace, reading my book
Experiences that aren’t made better
I only dance in public when I’m not with someone I know
I’m only free from all expectations on my own

But still, I miss having someone.
To love. To kiss. To hold.
I miss sleeping next to someone.
Not all the time, but sometimes.
I miss that moment when you look at each other and everything is said and nothing is spoken

Howling at the moon

Steps burn as ice
Chill wind creeping through skin
Grins at the moon
Midnight dancing
Grime soaked sweat
Small prickles cascade to torrent
Of needles scraping flesh
Exploding
Pain
Then the world is remade anew

Dead presidents

Folly of friendship
Trading a future for hardship
Listening to plans
Holding my tongue
Engaging in the behavior that breaks
Anxiety and setbacks
Suckered by compassion

Life under the vent

Chill bleeds into blood
Ice swirls in veins
Skin shivers hoping to generate warmth
Just expending energy on a lost cause
Oh, arctic wind, why do you torment me?!
Thank you office coat
You save me from frostbite