Papers holding memories
                tucked in the corner
        of yesterday
became an
                    origami daydream
          too weak to fly

Here, take this pen
                and write your name
Now take the pen
            and sign your life away

Didn't they tell you
        this dotted line is a noose
hanging
            from a weeping willow?

Slap the face of a clock
                              and it slows
Steal its hands
                and it sleeps forever.

It's better to live free from
the memory of love than
to be its prisoner in life.

spacesuit air
trapped
in isolated cells
of sticky spiky shells

six feet apart
or six feet under

lonely
failing
starving
suffocating
fibrous lungs

of continents
failing functions
spurting spewing
diffidence

migrating hopes
researching milestones
against

introspective exhale
in last days
on a departing
note

for the coming year
to have a fresher breath

Eternal sleep

Questions why

Answers keep

Reasons die

Darker still

Winter's night

Emotions ****

Souls' contrite

Time suspended

Final breath

As intended

Promises death...

Maybe I just forgot to make them
Or perhaps its the lack of interest

But this year

No new years resolutions.

I’ve tried all year
To change the person I am

But last year

I didn’t change

So what makes people think,
That I’ll change this year?