The sky is roaring darkness
Trumpeting fiery uncertainties
Great soul don't buckle under
The weight of the Leviathan
My soul keep hope alive infinite
My spirit keep hope high in infinity
The morning of glory'll surely dawn
With ominous clouds disappearing
As golden rainbows hold reign
In immortality of glorious beauties.

Make
room
for the
end
or it will
F O R C E
its way
BETW    EEN
your
plans and bring
those
to
an early
end too

Love life
life will love you back

bringing up the past
lies
ended relationships

forgive and forget
bring up the new
for tomorrow

and the future

forget me
forgetting you
forgive me
for everything
f*ck life
for making me
feel like this
for making me think
forgetting all I am
forgetting me

The pent up feelings I have for her
unbearable
The way I think she feels
regrettable
My expression for her
forgettable
no
unseeable
its
unforgivable
what it does to me
when she looks at me
when she touches me
unbelievable

I've started walking with a cane.
I'm like an old broken soldier.
Under the sofa are parts that do
not fit in rusty sockets.  New
loops and strings cannot

put
me
together.

I missed muster again and
got the letter.

I am
not required
at table

any more.

I spend my days twirling parts
left over from first rounds.
My springs boing hollow
and I don't
see well at night.

What will happen
to
me
now
that I have
seen the moment
of my greatness
flicker?

(I can still
quote Eliot.)

I want you more to
more than move me,
you starting my gears
and I overflow with

Purpose.

Your attention goes
and
I

no longer

see my any
self
at all.


Caroline Shank
2.07.2023