The Curb

Come in I say 
Come in
You’re welcome in this place
Take my extended hand
Uneasy though your breath

Walk through my humbled door
Need you ask for more and more and more
I’ll find it in my strength 
Or pull from my box of blessings
And share 

Dawg

Up in years now 
Am I correct or does the grey belie

And with each passing, Day
You touch me more
You phase me 
Damned you

Touch me less
Take your sixth sense elsewhere

fifty now

I know in hushed song

Century-old wood floors will herald in new dancers 

Learned souls, unphased by farewells and long shadows and dusk

Owning eyes unwilling to shade out the blinding unknown of each new dawn 

And the lies of lavender walls will be a thing for the past