Judgment Day That Lasted A…

Potato Chips and uneaten candy stick to the floor like broken dreams too precious to mend. soft coating wrapped around like bubble wrap because you’re too frail and easily bent backwards. Sour grapes mashed into wine. Too neat to cut. Drowning sage fathom none. Time moving ever onward. Run run run. Mama don’t take none of that. Sit back sit back. Holding breaths too still to whisper. Pillows stacked in the corner, we sleep on bodies. Blankets tie dyed and holograms of memories. I’d do anything to go to heaven. Bubblegum gums and pearly whites. Fight off that beautiful smile. Take my hand child…it’s time to go to hell.

Tinder

Tinder
Where broken people go to be fixed
Lonely hearts are forever sick
Broken hearted,
Insecure,
Touch deprived.
Lonely hearts wasting away in basements
Replacements?
I think not.
Oh, that girl?
Yeah, she’s hot.
Look for something deeper
Don’t be a creeper
Find love?
Not this one
Connection?
Trepidation.
Swipe right. Right?
Right.
She may be the one
Oh, what fun.
Ask her out with hesitation.
Denied a chance and
You’re left wasted
With devastation.

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4/17/18

I pricked my thumb
on the thorns
of your love,
i wept and you ate what you were fed.

Better Left Unsaid

What was I suppose to do?
It hurt to see you love another woman
you said you loved me too
why did you bring me into your world
you took me for a whirl
as your feet ran
i could not keep up
and i still followed you around like a pup
tracking your every move, watching you from the corner of my eye.
I could not detect your lies
but i still believed in you
i let the anger brew
and now its spilling on all sides
and felt my soul slowly die.
I dont want to ruin what we have
but at the same time we took the dive
and i never felt more alive.

The Man Who Was Content

“Only fools are satisfied Martin.” GeeGee said as she stretched out her long brown limbs. Her afro now flat in the back from laying down on her back side. She rolled over to her front and faced Martin.

Martin wrestled the idea a bit in his head and confirmed, “Yes, I am content.”

GeeGee’s mouth twisted to the corner of her face in a moment of thought.

“What’s the difference?”

Martin smiled and said “Being satisfied is getting everything done and getting everything you want. That’s why only fools are satisfied, because there is just too much to do and achieve and if you’re satisfied with all you’ve done and achieved then that’s a very sad life indeed. One would be a fool to be happy with that. However, there is content. I know I won’t be able to do everything in my life time. I won’t always have what I want or need but I am content with that.”

GeeGee stared hard and then smiled her wide, goofy, gap toothed smile.

“That’s happiness.” Martin concluded. “That’s happiness.”