John Destalo

John Destalo Sep 2020

she plays
with so

many things
a skinny

beautiful
creature

with a first
class

mind and
imagination

a puppet
master

creating
sights and

sounds
we follow

to our death
if we have to

but I don’t think
that is where

she leads us

John Destalo Sep 2020

the word raw

you invented
the word

raw

to describe me
reversed war

saw me as
unprepared

for this world
not ready to

fight

for anything
including you

and you were
right

you always
had a way

with words

John Destalo Sep 2020

ghost

ghost

she said
to me

I am a
magical

creature

I can
disappear

if I want to

I know
I can

because
I was

invisible
for most

of my
teenage

years

John Destalo Sep 2020

buzz

bees buZz
in your ears

the moan of
the moment

the ecstasy
of honey

drips

feel the pain
and poison

of all my
stings

when you
try to steal

my heart
and run away

John Destalo Sep 2020

friends

I sit on a rock
and speak

not a speech
a conversation

with the wind
speaking through

the trees

she tells a joke
and I laugh

feeling

the warmth of
her touch on

my cheeks
we have been

friends for
as long as I

can remember

John Destalo Sep 2020

like youth

plug me in
I want to

feel a force
surging

through me

I want to be
fully charged

I want to be
released

into the machines
I want to be

the power that
energizes the

world to change

John Destalo Sep 2020

the poison

lost in the
crazy vein

is a magic
carpet ride

to desire
succumb

to the
succubus

she stares
into the void

seeing her
beautiful
reflection

wink at her

hearing her
voice sing

that song
she loves