#halflife
I want to travel behind,
Backwards to that time,
When you were mine,
And I was your crime.
Breaking up was routine,
And so was making up,
Then a calamity struck,
And I survive to live a half-life.
Apr 12, 2021
Apr 12, 2021 at 4:25 AM UTC
Today is tomorrow's yesterday
Today is yesterday's tomorrow
My half life in past and in future
I don't know much about today,
the very same day,
what about now.
Sep 2, 2020
Sep 2, 2020 at 2:30 PM UTC
and often nights? i -
i’ll have no trouble
it’s the screens that
do me in.
the fallen angel
the lithesome, spent glow
of do-overs
it just
does me in.
i am too possessed
by mercurial vapor
a dead self
at 2 and 3 and 4am
egging on, asking
“keep looking? it’s
somewhere in the archives.
it has to be.”
i promised, i promised
i wouldn’t, i promised
or I’d spend months
years, decades of life
living in the guesswork
the in-betweens
lying in the pathways
between the thought
and the reflex.
i could scroll a whole
lifetime away
in wanting.
it’s the screens that
do me in.
Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 2:05 PM UTC
My half-life reflects
my active light, I’m as bright
as my afterlife.
© Matthew Harlovic
Jun 14, 2015
Jun 14, 2015 at 10:49 AM UTC
We live so that we may love.
This love makes life worth living
So what happens when we aren't with the one we love?
What happens is that we lose that life
We become a shadow of what we once were.
Doesn't it make sense to try to strip away this shadow?
To return to the light of our life
ridding us of that terrible shadow
Life is for love
Love is life
Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 10:21 PM UTC