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.

She Is More Than A Friend

Towel wraps and softly padded beds
Bath tubs of warm water and hot showers
when the cold aches my weary bones
I’m too old I’m too old
I’ve been old since 8 years old.
My friend, My foe
Tell me how it is
I am my worst enemy
but you are my angel.
Food that fills the belly
tacos, turkey and stuffing
stuffing me because i am far too empty
I can not feed my body nor my soul
I am too old I am too old
high nights, late nights
and starry skies
tears that spew
lies no longer
you free me I am freed.
you provide everything I ever need
gladly lay down my life for you
in this lonely world it’s just us two
you are not just a friend
you are my angel.

[Dedicated to one of my soul mates: Arely H.]

4/17/18

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

You

You are July, mid summer
Hot as can be!
Desert sun
Bake my skin, you
Engulf all- of me.
Summer storm, rattle my
Bones. Lighting and
A crash, thunder, and
A boom!
Wasted wasteland.
I pour down the
crevice of your
mountains. Wet
you become.
Drenched.
I.
Leave.
You.

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.”