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Why Bukowski didn't weep
"But love is not a victory march.
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
When the lowest point
of outstretched vulnerability is ignored
Refuse to cry or be afraid
of the darkness of loneliness.
Instead, march
headlong into its soured presence
to sit face to face.
Forbid any wasted water
to reflect multifaceted fear
across the silence
of your cheeks.
The silence,
that space
unimaginable
deep
fathoms
of homelessness
seeking shelter
from the rain
Hushed
a back-draft of silk
through an unlocked
attic of belief—
the door shutting
swiftly behind it.
A reckoning truth
jackhammering
every bone of trust
into shrapnel,
its debris filming
every breathing thing
under dust.
Refuse to choke.
Refuse the beauty of tears
to unfurl as condensation
between the stillness
of your frosted lips.
The stillness
endless,
stretching
reaching
across the depth.
~
12:45 AM: winter
my naked hands
shaking against
the cold wood
of a park bench
feeding two
stray cats hope
from hopeless fingertips
Their serrated
tongues scraping
the numbness
with gratefulness.
~
Because that's what you do
when circumstance slams
you into a wall
and says, "No."
You hit against that wood
until your knuckles bust.
Kick back
until your toes
contort in arthritic pain
Beat relentlessly
until your elbows peel
and knees are blood-split
Until its hinged spine
cracks and you say
"Watch. This."
And you give.
And you give.
And you give.
Down to your blood.
So strays don't starve
so people have hope
so you don't harden
to stone.
But, more importantly
most importantly
so that Love survives
The bluebird flies freely
through the cavernous barrel
of your chest
when you fall into bed
at 2:00 AM
crushed.
In the morning you wake sore
bruised, hungover
barely able to move
only to hear a thing
you thought had given up the ghost.
A poem, rising from the chaos
of senselessness.
You remember in that instant
what you've fought for
and against all your life.
So you write.
And you write.
And you write
for love
...for hope
......for belief
.........for strays.
But, more importantly
most importantly
that you survive. ~
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
When the lowest point
of outstretched vulnerability is ignored
Refuse to cry or be afraid
of the darkness of loneliness.
Instead, march
headlong into its soured presence
to sit face to face.
Forbid any wasted water
to reflect multifaceted fear
across the silence
of your cheeks.
The silence,
that space
unimaginable
deep
fathoms
of homelessness
seeking shelter
from the rain
Hushed
a back-draft of silk
through an unlocked
attic of belief—
the door shutting
swiftly behind it.
A reckoning truth
jackhammering
every bone of trust
into shrapnel,
its debris filming
every breathing thing
under dust.
Refuse to choke.
Refuse the beauty of tears
to unfurl as condensation
between the stillness
of your frosted lips.
The stillness
endless,
stretching
reaching
across the depth.
~
12:45 AM: winter
my naked hands
shaking against
the cold wood
of a park bench
feeding two
stray cats hope
from hopeless fingertips
Their serrated
tongues scraping
the numbness
with gratefulness.
~
Because that's what you do
when circumstance slams
you into a wall
and says, "No."
You hit against that wood
until your knuckles bust.
Kick back
until your toes
contort in arthritic pain
Beat relentlessly
until your elbows peel
and knees are blood-split
Until its hinged spine
cracks and you say
"Watch. This."
And you give.
And you give.
And you give.
Down to your blood.
So strays don't starve
so people have hope
so you don't harden
to stone.
But, more importantly
most importantly
so that Love survives
The bluebird flies freely
through the cavernous barrel
of your chest
when you fall into bed
at 2:00 AM
crushed.
In the morning you wake sore
bruised, hungover
barely able to move
only to hear a thing
you thought had given up the ghost.
A poem, rising from the chaos
of senselessness.
You remember in that instant
what you've fought for
and against all your life.
So you write.
And you write.
And you write
for love
...for hope
......for belief
.........for strays.
But, more importantly
most importantly
that you survive. ~
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