I curse you with every piece
Of the soul you wish me to have
Yet I will bear your presence

For I know
One day soon you'll find yourself
Buried alive on the edge of the Grand Canyon

In the dark you'll feel
The worms and spiders and beetles
Crawling in and out of your
eyes and ears and mouth and nose
And they will be
Your only friends

I'll sit six feet above you
Listening to your panicked screams
Until everything is quiet
Even the sound of your voice in my head
Will be silent
forever

click, click, click
Computer solitaire after dark
Card after card
glance, nope
wrong colour
wrong number
wrong type
6 of diamonds
3 of clubs
Nothing is right
The queen of hearts is starting to look
a bit downtrodden
Another red jack passes her by
No cards left
Deal again

Hisses delusions
Jumps to conclusions
Causes confusions
With no real solutions
Twists and tangles
Slashes, mangles
Breaks and shatters
All that matters
Nothing works
It just irks
Muscle spasms and jerks
Just a jumble of feeling
To scrape off the ceiling

Woodcrest Way is a boxing match
On this side of the road we have
The sunny clean sidewalk
The forty-something and mutt
white coat white boots white dog
And in this corner
The shady cracked sidewalk
The teen and bookbag
black jacket black jeans muddy black converse
The stare down
The size up
And we have a winner
Ms. Forty-Something shies away
From the deadly glint
In her opponent's eyes

You held me by the shoulders
And blinded us both with the flash
The opposites
White and black
Blue and brown
The difference between
smiling and smizing was evident
in that snapshot
But what you probably didn't realize was
your cool hand on my shoulder
Was like
an electric shock
coursing through my body
And the sensation
took the breath out of my lungs
and ****** the corners of my mouth
up
I laughed at the face I was making
But the wonder
remained

The sun
In all its glory
Reaches through the blinds
To stab me in the eyes
WAKE UP, the birds shriek
And as I groan
And grumble groggy curses
The sun chuckles throatily
And reflects off CD covers
Clock faces
And glasses
A cacophony of sight and sound
Just to get me out of bed
My neck is sore
And my stomach is empty
But the warm bed
calls to me
so
I flip over and go back to sleep

We're fighting a war, you and I
Some battles were different and others the same
It's not like those movies we've seen
There were many casualties
We've each suffered
From our own battles
But in you I see an ally
And in me you see a friend
So we will fight this war together
And someday soon we'll emerge
******, scarred, but victorious
And our enemies will see our tattered banner for miles around
Knowing we've won the war