Unwelcome

I dwell in this house and know I should not
 Live here in the dark and dust when I know
 It is nothing but unhealthy. I must
 Tear down these unholy walls and rip up
 The floors. I must spread kerosine and light
 The roof with it. Instead, my gray hairs lie
 With corpses rotting in my bed, in dust
 Decades…

POETRY

Castle Walls

When I became a single man, alone
 Once more, I found myself cold, wondering
 For hours on end if my love life was sewn
 Up as a case, my desperate foundering
 Could ever end. I simply had forgot
 To know what must be done or where to look.
 My poor experience simply…

The Absent One

Why keep on looking when you’ve found the one?
 What if your love does not share in this view
 And then turns out to be the one to run
 Away from anything that had the hue
 Of happiness or permanence? True oneness
 Would frighten frigid this emotion-child,
 Away from the only love who could bless
 Her…

Missed

I rush out of the house
 Having awakened in time
 To miss my breakfast
 Cool air hits my face
 It’s nearly Fall
 A few says left of Summer time
 I darted down the concrete way
 Dying flowers all along
 Having missed them in my daily rush
 I’d missed when they were beautiful
 I stepped out on the blacktop road
 And…

Living Together

She’s always in the room with him, and yet
 She always feels as if he is alone,
 He’s disconnected from her, everyone.
 He only ever wanted love, a woman
 For true companionship, to feel her close
 Beside him, next to him, within. He feels
 He must become a different one for her,
 Another yet for…