Thursday, February 16, 2012

the queasy feeling of needing to be

somewhere but there is no place left to go


you stumble slowly down a gray pavement

and it is as if people pass right through you


abstracted from the cloud-laden sky

and the aural smudge of traffic and birdsong


as if where you are going means less

than where you are coming from...


your purpose served (for ill or good)

you won't know in this skin


you threw dice and sometimes you won

you bared your heart and maybe once


or so you didn't get it broken and now to stand

outside all concern of those who didn't do as much for you...



Content (c) 2008-2012 Philip Milito.

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