Immortality

 

in your eyes what light blinds

shatters this normalcy what more

word or whisper or kiss

it's all the same to me

enter this light redeeming willingly

it is the summer of you

a brilliance becoming

a warming heart beating

healing the scars

on scars loss upon loss

the immortal impatient

waiting restlessly

at the door

 

Immortality

jppestana

12.19.2020

The Rummage

it is a day that never begins

from the window dead leaves die

die again fall away

a cold wind breaks against a stone wall broken

vultures hunched on old silos stare coldly

an old man on the road stares back

there is no why

seeing the dark masses of rising starling falling loudly are they

what passes for sky

a woman's voice calls to no one

the attic stairs are darkly worn

a dim light creates more shadows than light

the woman's voice calls again

bothered her words are buried deeper

then again

jppestana

The Rummage

12...8..2020

 

Before and After

when there is nothing left to see

blindly pleased you see everything

before me

and what little is left you feel escaping

like some bandit desperately riding away under an all consuming sun

and strangely you leave me abandoned

a victim speechless here

in the before and

after

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Before and After

12.8.2020