Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
And how do you...
Know me
Share the unfair
Pull invisible strings
Stir what froze solid
Question the reason
Cause upheaval
Invite pain
Bleed this soul
Use words
To know
Making me
Wish for more
To know myself
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Before I acknowledge
This vessel, these surroundings
From within, this vantage
Resting comfortably
upon a pillow
I take measure, this life
So pours forth my gratitude
In concert the steady cadence
This heart, filled in love
Joy and those dearest
As I simply breathe
And appreciate
Another day ahead of me.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
It wasn't always such
As to be easily unwanted
Just as desires
Missed chances put out
Egotistic fires.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Me.
Hundreds of my thoughts
Falling short of lofty ambition
Maddeningly difficult to
Define my working faults
In my limited vocabulary
The reality of all parts
That unfragmented equal
Me.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Unremarkable, therein lays the unresolved.
I long after special, treasured, vaguely memorable.
Perhaps this is a folly on my part, wanting
As here I sit, hesitant, gazing out of the window.
Same as the last, the one before, prior, after.
This routine spoils the hungry fire and dims the brilliant light within.
Colors seem different, shaded, washed in grey.
Opening the door I dutifully commit myself,.. once more
The beginning, here at another day.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
I leave my door open
Not a little, no
all the way for you
But you won't come
You are about you
No one else
As are these tens of tens
Thousands of moments
You were everything
Piled at the threshold
Asif I cannot force out
Page after page of
My hand drawing cursive
While your face haunts
Holds my attention
So I wait, pathetic and
Patient, one day,
Maybe you'll read them.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
What do we use words for?
We haven't communicated lately
I blurted out the hope
Met against open denial
Then without, and pushed
Growing distance
The Empty Air Between us.
Next page