acraein

Experience pure joy alone
throwing shit into the water.
Scream at every passing wave.
I may fade but never falter.

Watch humanity grow grey hair;
avoid reflecting with some dumb show.
Then I see white light break apart.
I snag some straws and head for home.

Jealous of nesting crows just
grabbing passing hair and shouting.
Don't cry, they're just lullabies
and songs sung sweetly at the ending.

I ripped the pages from your bible so
you built another warehouse on the water.
Sigh at every passing wave.
I might fade and I might falter.

Who loves Isabelle?
It was written on the wall
with the haste that they
couldn't bear to be away from her at all.

Would you paint my name
Down by the railroad tracks?
A sign so fine, magnificent,
but subtlety it lacks.

There was a time,
not a faraway age,
I'd think to scrawl your letters
in the indent of my page,

but the shake in my hand
was so profuse,
I tried and tried
but it was no use.

I sat with some tea
for my next session.
I borrowed words
from obscure professions,

and mythology,
and sprung rhythm prose
juxtaposed with
crocus flows.

So covered up
I couldn't tell.
Someday I'll simply sing,
Loves Isabelle.

Isn't it strange how
memory culminates?
Every piece of familiar
you've fallen through
has forgotten you.
The beams and the bells
that make you
gone invisible.

Remember the days I
had the cadence of
a mountaineer?
eclipsing undulations
in awkward motions.

Life is not a whisper.
I am not a hammer.