Saturday, September 4, 2021

Poem: Long Night Into Day

 Long Night Into Day


light stung

with its lack of tomorrow,

the what-was that devoured the what-if. 

lost in a pine forest of overdose needles.

below sharp blue height

that leered over endless boxes.

 

light, it ran away so fast.

it didn’t have to face causes.

the clear-cut nudity

of harsh sexless sex.

the cortege of wind-tumbled people,

prisoners of ruthless equations.

 

the light. 

it hurt.  it framed.  it trapped.

so brutal that hope

preferred to remain an unearthed stone.

in the night, lurid pretenders.

maskers who played cards without mercy.

games of dogs, paws on each other’s hearts

to dig for bones.



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