#plank
There was a time when you could make me fall right back to highschool.
The days of virginity and innocence.
Years between our encounters and you'd always be just beneath my breath.
So juvenile and oblivious to all the ways you'd disappoint.
So attached and forgiving.
I found myself at the end of your plank too many times.
Cannonball at my ankles.
Looking down your blade with the point in my neck.
I'll see you again soon...
I always used to feel.
But now I can't conjure the same devotion.
The image of you has finally muddied and spoiled.
I noticed this transition and felt the change somewhere along the way.
Affirmation that I don't need always live on that plank with my heels hanging off.
Aug 21, 2016
Aug 21, 2016 at 11:26 AM UTC
Your lips
a plank
so
catapult me
with your tongue
past reality
past judgement
I am already
floating
on the edge of reason
May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 10:42 PM UTC
A day for the books
a Christmas gone by
one more dead turkey
one more pumpkin pie
Family and friends
comrades in arms
all the way to the end
no anger no harm
A day to remember
after everything's done
presents all opened
for each, every one
Blood's thicker than water
and forgiveness assured
for all of the trespass'
of what was endured
So once more we'll partake
of the wine and repast
for everyone's sake
silently lashed
to the mast
Dec 25, 2018
Dec 25, 2018 at 11:39 PM UTC
"Heavy appendage lying above,
Your weight equals your allure
Simple leverage outside to in,
Your potential follows behind"
I said while chained to the center
Bearing my burden as I did
"Your extremities lean too far south,
Weakened your zenith splinters
Your midpoint, threatened from end to end,
Is all that neither shall bear"
The shoulders of man began to bleed,
At the axis, where a silent atlas stood
"Hold the earth and tether it to fit
Hold the end up to balance the plain
Hold each other and revel in peace
Hold fast to the fulcrum"
With these last words Atlas left
Leaving man to work
And Man alone
Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 4:34 PM UTC