Daring

Provocative

Then look

what you have instead

What you inherited

Like a buzzard eating

What he did not kill

On the edge of culture

Your two choices

Work like mad

Or maintain

what you never worked for

Like a buzzard eating

What he did not kill

Call off the dogs

Peel off my face

See what you did

Now stay away

Some do deserve

And must be put down

They breathe such rot

It’s one or us

We can all agree

You must go

Graves were meant

To hold the liars

And I’m thrilled

You regained

Just a bit

Of your reputation

You did do good

Years before you laid in wait

And shot us all down

So we’ll applaud, while you go

The neighbors dog is so angry

It’s kinda good to see

Cause you can’t hear growling

No, not like barking

And you can’t fear barking

Unless there’s a tight tight chain

Or worse, unless there’s none

I like what I’m seeing

Cause rabbits aren’t needed

But get mad and get mad

Because it is plumb wrong

To spend momma’s money

On far off milk

You know that

So you’ll be wise

To remember

Fighters find their exit

Broken people do

And claws shred our backs

We’re left with memory pain

That secret sacred treasure

Of life-long comrades

Could have never been

We had no way of knowing

That they can never be

Connected to another

Cause they only breathe

One long breath at a time

And when it’s over

When he run out of air

Well that’s when you see

The depth of that broken man

He will blame you

And mean it

Because he’s incapable

Of healing self-reflection

He says, “I don’t have to.”

Then he’ll take another slow breath

Poor poor people who are next

If you show chagrin in any shade

I simply can’t take it

I unravel

You barely frown or nearly frown

Avalanche

You sigh or stare

I’m completely snowed in

It’s such a weakness of mine

And I’ve built such a thin wall around it

But at the end of the week

When I’m spent and tired

And desperately need you to be winsome,

It just kills me, completely destroys me

If you show chagrin in any shade

That took quite a bit of time

There was a language barrier

But I choose to believe

That the heart was right

You’re just very thorough

Which isn’t a bad thing

It just requires my patience

And my late-night time

There seems to be a problem

With understanding the difference

Between what and how and why

It’s as simple as that really

I don’t know how I could have

Alleviated your anguish

Or avoided it all together

Lord knows I tried

I’m glad you rolled the window down

I’m sure the wind of confession refreshed

I’m glad you sang to me your revelation

And sang it clearly and truly and long

I hope you feel a sense of restoration

To the river of purity and hope

And that you see I hold you high

Without a smudge of regret

For you are as beautiful now

As the day of the brilliant blue

And I love you all I know how

And will keep learning this water

You are a beautiful rolling being

It’s funny how most

Interpret the goodbye verse

As a loss of a lover’s life

When really it may be

A farewell to anything

Oh how telling though

To assume the hearts home

Is doomed to be empty

At some point, alone

And deep deep deep

Goes the mourning

So deep we presuppose

That every goodbye song

Is about the loss of a lover’s life

Burn through it

Listen and be aware

Double-down and focus

Ride the wave

Let completion thrill you

Smell the good decision

Unpack it for the crowd

Then deliver the dream

Until they see what you saw

That break will be better

After and not between

Just enjoy your space

Burn through it

It is frustrating

To see the unseen

To know the right road

And you think

Why is something

That is so clear to me

Not clear to others

Since I was young

Hands on my back

Pushed me to the front

You speak. You go.

And people clamor

How? Why?

And I don’t know how

I smell such ways

But I naively think

It’s part of a rope

We are all holding

And I do fear

From time to time

If I’m honest

That I won’t be able

To explain the good decision

That no one will follow