Time is all
Anyone has
None of,
Plenty of ways
For the seconds
To compound
Like grains of nothing
Between the toes
Washed away
Constantly into the great void
Light sinking into darkness,
Yet we try
Time and time again
To hold it
Within our grasp,
As we slap
Father time
Across the face
Love you
Without a second thought
A minute to doubt
An eternity to forget
As it all withers
Away from the sanity
Of all the clocks
On all the walls
On all the wrists
Insane symbols
Like the emperor's
New robes
We will never wear
More proudly
Like the imbeciles
That think
Tomorrow and your love
May yet arrive...

APAD13 - 135 © okpoet

At your door
Knock knock
Knocking on
At your door
With my heart
On a string,
A yo-yo
Back and forth
And back and forth
As to why
I'm standing here
Trying to find a meaning,
Where nothing is
Supposed to
Have a meaning
Because it's all a feeling
From this
Spinning orb
On the end of my finger,
Knock knocking
Heaven or hell's door
But then you answer
A slit in the wall
You put up,
That now I want
To just break down
But I'm glad
If you just let me in
And only me,
It's a start...

APAD13 - 134 © okpoet

I need you
Like I need
This next breath
This next heart beat,
In this moment
That you eclipse my mind
It's an imperfect world
Covered in darkness
Because I cannot see
What will be of me
Without you,
Because if this persists
This minute to minute
Absence of you
In my picture perfect dream,
Then I cannot
Will not
Take my next step
My next breath
Because I cannot
Will not
Continue like this
Without you,
Waiting for you
Like the next
Perseids
Just watching
The trailing showers
Knowing I won't
Live until its return...

APAD13 - 133 © okpoet

Her memories
Envelop me
Popped confetti
Candy from a busted piñata
Weighing me down,
Packing peanuts
Suffocating my heart
Stronger than gravity
Crushing me,
Down into the depths
Of our past
A present unopened
Unlabeled card
Under the biggest bow,
Frilly string
The veins
To my soul
The sharper the scissors
That I can find,
To cut
To severe
To serrate
Samurai blade
Through silk,
Any blood spilt
Like water through rock,
The lightest of rouge
My eyes
Stained glass
Mosaics of her...

APAD13 - 132 © okpoet

She drains me of words
Like at the end of a bath,
And I'm left with the stopper
Dry as a prune
Until I can
Once again
Replenish my thoughts,
Come again
Under my shower
But I'm just a mist
Lightly saturating
Her once more
Like the moisturizer after
But she shaves and dries
It all off,
What of it all
Has she absorbed?
I can't be coke
Left to go flat
Crushed soda pop can
In the sun
Unable to redeem myself,
Won't you give me a nickel
For my love?

APAD13 - 131 © okpoet

Her love is graffiti
On the blank walls
Within me,
All those colors
All just seem
Like different
Shades of red
To me,
As they pool
At my feet
I admire her soul
Not like I have
X-ray vision,
But I've seen
Her beauty faded
Before me
As a rose
That wilts
As a flower
That withers,
All that is pretty
Isn't just plasticine,
It's real flesh
As every breath
Oxidizes from within,
I know that all that will be left
Is like
What it must be
For the deaf and blind
Only what I feel
From and for her
When I'm near...

APAD13 - 130 © okpoet

I haven't seen you
In forever
And I'm constantly
Finding myself,
Trying to remember
Like I'm afraid
I will eventually forget
And you'll come up
Like an old song
On the FM radio
That I hardly ever
Listen to,
Top hits of long ago
That feel like another life
When I thought
Nothing else
But of someone else
Outside of me
From within me
Trying to get out
Just to find you,
And now I'm slipping
Like soap from your grip
Will you ever catch me again?

APAD13 - 129 © okpoet