zebrasindenver

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Us.

I spent the better part of today

bathing in your sun

The moon was half

but my heart was full

Last night i cancelled on dinner

and your movements today

i feel like i cancelled love

I sit here at the present alone

like all the others before

I am looking over poems

I wrote in similar company, many years ago

There is a difference in my being now

A shift in my words

I am lightly older

And can appreciate the beauty

In the youth i had

As i look back over words

I see now

That i had something to say

And tonight i am lighter

As i have foretold my past

There is this door

out the front of hotel

its broken

scratched

the title reads 5169

it sits quietly

at peace with its age

last night as i laid down sleeping

i threw a lit match into my pile of unfinished prose

as i lay next to it with wild dreams

i woke to find it not lying in ashes

but a single strand of smoke flew free

will she catch alight

how bright will she burn

and most of all

how long will she let me warm myself

upon her pure flame

can we just not be honest

which corners of this earth,

are not haunted by your ghosts

Love is so powerful
Then you leave
With love

I could not
Have
Left you harder