Whenever
you enter
a room,
your
whole life
enters
with you.
---
Once I wandered
into the labyrinth
of madness.
I spent
some quality
time there.
I don't know
that all of me
returned.
---
We were as gods then, he said, but the clocks came and rendered our lives into pieces.
---
People misunderstand me;
I only mean what I am.
---
On good mornings
I wake up
and sincerely vow
to change my life
for the better
which never
seems to happen.
On bad mornings
I realize that
I am what I am
and even
in America,
land of
mindless optimism,
endless second chances,
tsunamis of self-help books,
and an infinity
of religions,
that is all
I'll ever be.
---
If something
we value
means nothing,
then more
of something
becomes
an excess
of nothing.
---
Life without
a woman
to temper
my stupidities
is difficult
indeed.
===
It is easy
in stray moments
to forgive
yourself.
---
Don't be afraid of the world;
it isn't afraid of you.
---
Love rarely suffices;
friendship often does.
---
You are
the only sunlight
on my skin;
when you go,
I slip
into darkness.
---
The future
is a patient
dog,
always beside us
waiting
to be noticed.
---
I would die
for your eyes.
~mce
Random notes that never turned into poems.
