Honest Ruse

Upon what land, what sinking sand
Do your feet stand

When what is true reduces you
To kneeling, sobbing, midnight-blue

Yet fallacy, it comforts thee
From its midst, hope flows gracefully

dawn’s fact

Reaching under toward
The unlit light
For an anchor
For something
Always and alone
I could cry -I have and I do
This I promise
Stay there too long
With tears ankle deep
And you’ll miss the maddening laughter
That carries you safely through
To dawn’s fact

never ever never

Nothingness to see
An ache
Rising to despair
A graduate of searing numbness

Linger here and hear
Some final sigh into the night
Whose agony
Stars cannot pierce

All this to taste
A certain fate
When if you do
Give up your Hope