Nothing At All

cry out boy! 

cry out now!

you are alone in this town of

shady maple lanes 

flowery girls in summer dresses 

sunny daisies in impossibly green grass

you are forever in the narrow sorrowed alleyways 

between worn lives shouting tears in their despair

go ahead reach deeply into 

the most seemingly pleasant of insanities 

the unimagined is here to stay 

you unlikeliest explorer move from thing

to thing to thing know 

there are great lies still to tell

bells to chime the too fast hours of day

made up sins to share compare

cats on the tin roof confess rub purr for 

soft bread soaked in warm milk

nearby the river is really his sea  

poetry of gulls unconstrained wings are the 

expression of all there is

distracted you look away into the noisy shadows

crooked smiles of dangerous boys running wild 

gleefully certain of nothing 

at all

 

JPPestana

1.11.2022

Nothing At All