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The Nice Cobra Prayer

God,
Please do not let me hurt anyone today.
And please let me help others,
IF I AM SUPPOSED TO!


That last line, is extremely subjective.
So that means, I get to choose,
If I, or some other entity…
Wants.
The end of the day
Slowly yet ****** approaching
And I have done nothing

Regret and guilt eat me alive
Grief for the time I have lost
Wasting

Things were there
Waiting to be done
Calling my name out in vain
Taunting me
And I ignored them

Remorse

For today
I feel as though
I have accomplished
Nothing
I'm sorry
life is tragedy
between tiny bits of calm
before the next storm
Something I did
When I was younger
While I was feeling good
Was I would send my future self love
For when I needed it most
For when things were just too much
I would tap the back of hand
And it was sent
And to receive it
I just had to tap again
And though there's no way
That a little movement of hand could do so much
But it really felt that way
At least I was there for me
And that was a comfort
I was a very odd third grader
I drove to Boston with
  a teacher and a dealer
  and a snake oil healer,
  left family like trash
  burned it down to ash
  in a lightening flash
  shrinks passed me on
  one to another ******
  to stay inside my mind
  and they rob me blind
  calm before the storm
  world's fabric is torn
  hear God's heart beat
  feel hell's cruel heat
  the panic attack I have
  a bus stop on Mass Ave.
  I walk miles to my womb
  my tiny safe attic room.
Steaming chocolate scents the room
    coaxing me to sink into
          a soft warm woollen russet blanket
    with the promise of
            spicy sienna cinnamon biscuits.
Outside the trees prepare to hibernate
  discarding yellow ochre leaves
        onto the brown damp forest floor.
Crackles from a fire-pit
    penetrate the window
        and remind me of the autumn cold.
The finest part of a wet, chilly fall day
        is watching through double glazing.
I fell harder but you fell for another.
I loved you but you adored her .
I was yours but you weren't mine.
I was on your left but she was on your right .
I was left behind and you were right there on her side .
I was crying but she was dying
I shined liked the moon but she blinded you like the sun.
I gave you my heart but you gave me your mind .
You craved her but I loved you.
Yes, It was my fault that I tripped over my own heart and fell till death did us apart but you died with her while she was still in your arms.
We still had the red string that attached us to one another so maybe you will find me in the after life and love me while I would not love you.
One day when we are old,
Yet not so old that wonder's lost.
We'll talk again once more of love,
Of loss and wanderlust.
While whiskey warms our aging bones
Waging war against the frost.
Our tales turn to pantheons
And the follies of fallen gods.
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