Sometimes I need to walk
To feel the city breathe
Late at night
Watching traffic whiz by
The dark irony
Of life
It’s the homeless
Who go to bed early
Up curly with the sun
Now blanketed
Drunk & doomed
Under the watchful eye
Of the moon
That place where the old
Wells Fargo ATM used to be
The Staples business refuge
For the wind, biting hard
The night skies beauty at large
While my feet ache from
Another long day
So long have I stray’d
Losing sight of the city
Sometimes I need to feel
My life walking home
I pray
Walking home alone
The cold
It’s real
Letting the city
Breathe me in
Learning to put love
And myself in the same sentence
Putting up with sin
Needed to get out
Of myself tonight
Wanted to fill the void within
Watching your aged legs
Spill out of your dress
Splashing over your chair
Like a hunter I
Smell lust
It’s right there
With the color in your hair
Plus I slept way too long today
Amped up and charged
Into you like a barge
I push
You pull
Eyes closed
Like vampires
Biting
We thirst
My bedroom
The great hearse
Splashing dance floor
Winded brown & soft
Yet, suddenly I’m lost
In missing my own lover
Like waking up with no covers
Cold, now curious
Fantasy expires
Desire is gone
Like a balloon pop
Instant drop
Stop & roll
And just walk the fuck away
Needed to get out
Of myself today
Walking home to feel the streets
The city I breathe, within
Pasta boat stuck on TV
Outside CNN
Glued to the way
The world looks this way
Passing the places
Where she walks
The zone; I used to call it
I guess now it’s
Just down the block
Whatever & however
Were all black birds
To a flock, the mother
Of tick & time she tocks
My desires stock, crumbles
Like the dirt beneath these
Shovel’s heaves, the winters
Tree’s, leave
Barren & skinny
Just fingers to the sky
Pointing out the places
Where I used to get high
This void inside, just needs
To be home, no death match
No throne, the garden tonight
I thought I needed
But instead, I just needed to feel
The dead, of winter
And the city breathing
Cold concrete
Beneath my feet
No harm no foul
I’m going home where it’s safe
And sound, where I
Can’t & won’t hurt you
Where the sky stays so blue
A place where the void
She can rest in fleece
And I can whisper feelings away
I guess this is showing up
I guess this is growing astray
Noticing the times
I reach outside of myself
For an answer I can
Only find in Him
The one meaning of life
Within
Begin
Overwhelmed
With questions
I stop & settle in
Don’t need to answer anything
Tonight, just some warm clothes
& my bed, I guess instead
I just needed to feel the din
I just needed I guess
To let the city win
Like a tiny rip at the seams
I won’t be hemming
I’ll leave it there for show
Tonight outside with the streetlights
I guess I just needed to see them glow
To stretch, to reach
To allow myself to grow
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