#1915 - haunted by the living

 

1915

6.88

29.iii.25

haunted by the living

 

how they ache into day

and sometimes lost for conversation

just as we imagine

they’re in the words we’ve had

 

they are all could have been

many years since

 

gone and going

are going to be

 

once we were significant

always other though

 

our guess grim

 

turn on the tv when we arrive

that’s to be somewhere else

 

once in a fold self

 

now, a little bitter, how not?

 

one may always think to haunt back

 

that’s involuntary

 

the problem was always listening

a stethoscope and knee tap hammer

 

privately the rain

then no bird flies

no one sings

 

what was will never serve for glory

 

no one said forever

 

forever was always there