Evidencing hope
There’s no better legacy
What pow’r, your footprint
In the perfect of now, get in line
Come see my spine
Singing prettily
My strong, fractured song
Standing upright, dancing, sprinkling
Cinnamon-sugar safety
In the spotlight of my doorstep
Pretend you’ve a past together
For we’re all made of the exact same starlight stuff
We share an ilk
We each have hopes
Pretend that time stood still on your best schoolday
That you mean to steal a kiss before the bus departs
That Summer is on the horizon
All is right and you can do no wrong
A resounding “Atta Girl!”
He proclaimed today
Looking East from the mountains
He saw I’d be okay
In his Rocky Mountain drawl
He quothed from afar
Calling out to let me know
He saw a still rock star
Original Thought Credit: “So What” A song by Pink
One warm tear after another
Fell shocking me after I’d whispered my name aloud in some man’s voice I no longer know
Tears as heavy diamonds, flawless and innocent, from my right first then my left
Each with the viscosity needed to let love flow through this muscle-car I call my heart
This, coldest of winter’s night
Off the mountaintop
More oxygen to these wounds
Less surprise attacks
See me
A junkie
Watery-eyed and shiftless
The voice in my head ruthless
Hope supply torn from my veins
Disoriented and in slow-motion
I know not what to do
But hunger and shake
And wait to be clean of you
Count yourself among the many
Who do not care to consider my midnight musings of any value
To know my heart-wrenching pleas for your return
Sent unrequited out
But what you need know
My last diary entry was a mid-summer date
Immediately before the fireworks, but after my hope expired
Your birthday, baby
And when life hurts hard
Decide to soften your eyes
Choose a hope-filled heart
This is all okay
Everything that went away
My replacing you
