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

Hear the dripping branches sing
when the icy breath of winter
melts to kiss the waiting lips of spring

The  purple ripples in the air
Advise you that there’s anger there
Anger that is not contained
By someone who was anger trained.

Listen to the things he shouts
He’s mad as hell without a doubt.
Here he comes towards your door
What is he so ******* for.

You didn’t barge into his lane -
To cut him off would be insane.
You only gently honked your horn
And now you get his shouting scorn.

He bangs the window of your car
And you now know he’ll go too far.
It’s clear he is a total ***
So stomp your foot down on the gas.

Leave him in a cloud of smoke
And give yourself the final joke.
Leave him shouting in the street
And tell yourself “Revenge is sweet”
ljm