New Poetry


Where Even The Dreams

He says

a little death
in the midst of life
is sometimes necessary

he says it helps me find the strength
to go on

otherwise it’s all too heavy

there’s a ritual I perform
most every night

a kind of half-assed
suicide

I sit up and match the darkness
drink for drink
I drink the small hours
into oblivion

until the night
finally concedes
and fades into the grey
light of morning

and the mind
lets go

and

for a little while

I am free to wander
where even the dreams
can’t find me.

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