i have a few
     people let's say
who i thought i knew
but chose to keep the truth at bay
breathless ravines
dark chasms and streams
unanswered prayers because
     He can't understand.
this modern language
tongues of
anger and lust
tied tight in a knot
dripping with sweat
i hear his pain inside my cough
and the body is a stage
from which the soul
leaps off.