#35 - a quiet life and briefly

4.2.20

35

two poems

a quiet life and briefly

come along with me

upward of some number lived

and fenced from

numberless as

come along  

to where the names are known

tell tides come for

go in fear of

thrown together till

these arts for my eternity

inch along under

someone is singing under this heart

no one sees in

but here’s the key

I’m waking the picture again

there is no view from there

go down in the truth

where so often lost

it’s meal to meal

and make a lovely allegory

come along with me

to the somewhere past smoke

under the weight of all opinion

and how are these moments for you?  

it’s better not to judge

passing from this world to nowhere

cough quieted

aches down

as if travelling with this little kit

and bring a better place along

say ‘faith’ – keep that

lost to the dream

what I’ll do next

and who I’ll be

having lived in the fires so long

how could I go out?

again the weather

predicting me

drift to the deeps where drowning

‘if there’s a product you can’t see’

the flash of all before is

moment for its own unending

and here’s anathema for fact

they say… joy of it

knowing the damage already done

upload, download, I’m not sure

last limbs of mine hug close

what’s not required on the voyage –

that will be you and me

again the weather

predicting me

what I’ll do next

and who I’ll be

flash of all before is

moment for its own unending