Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Waltzing with a Ghost



The songs you introduced to me -

CDs playing on repeat until they get so

scratched that the sound isn't audible

anymore. Porcupine tree and God is an Astronaut

acid rock and plain piano flood the room.


I wish you'd left me your record player

and a vinyl or two, but I understand

why you couldn't find that love in your heart.

It's been a while since I've listened

to your soul or read through the poems

written in pencil on faded grey lines of hope;


but I think you should know, I would

pay tribute to every tainted opportunity

and charred photograph we have yet to find

with each tear I am about to shed. But you -


you don't even understand that, do you?
    

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