Twists in Solitary Time

Time

Day arrives

with a quiet sigh of life

Hills

The features of earth’s face

under a cold sun

The soft smell of winter air

The times I enjoyed

Drank deep from the cup of poison

of life

So far ago

So long afar

So lost

Friends I loved

Scattered and torn

by me

by them

by time.

*

The weekend night

When I saw

the love I might not have

When I saw

time in the night sky

She flew over and left us stranded

On our hills

In our valleys

Alone

and would it hurt?

Yes

Yes

Yes

and would I still long

and love

and see slow rain?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Would I cry?

No

The pain would tear me apart

spill my blood

The hate would hurt all the world

Sinking like grey rain

Poison from above

crawling like insects – in.

*

Crystal ships of blood

Float silently in the air

Cunning carpets

crawl across the floor.

Still longing

Still loving

Dead still

Still dead.

*

Toadstools twist in the twighlight

in the night

And I’m alone again

Not sorrowful

Not fearful

but cold and numb

and open

In my lonesome mind

in my lonesome skull

in my numb body

The curtain drops again

The parrody under the stars

begins again

and the actors: Me and I

tangle and twist in imaginary time

She touches me

Soft sensation

again

Soft tender sensation

again

A bullet to my brain

She’s awoken me

and I can see

and love

and cry.