BETRAYAL
a sadness betrays my attitude
soft and quietly while it
rolls down the inside of my feelings,
a temporary hollowness
bloats my thoughts in all directions,
my eyes stare off into the sky
hoping to intercept aliens there
and divest my mind from thinking,
instead of pondering, wondering
and reflecting on some other
course of action taken against
those unwanted emotions,
still believing in controlling
and focusing all of the forgotten as
some sort of tribute to the heavens
for all that's been bestowed upon me
like some albatross worn until
the day that I die and it finds another
whose sadness betrays their attitudes.
28 November 2020
death departs in desperation
falling to the ground in wonderment
and all the reckless acts taken
as if some deranged lunatic is
on some quest for competition;
life lives inside loneliness
collecting loose change along the way
to tip those who offered help
without realizing they were preventing;
dishes washed and on the counter drying
provides the newness for the day
and mindless repetitious acts
lay the foundation for pleas of insanity;
the tide that binds also washes away
but not the sins of another day nor the
pot of courage I am holding as if
it were ready for the stove when
in it are missing ingredients that have
remained on shelves of opportunities;
we are better off not knowing even
when the reaper is just around the corner,
and we weep not for what we missed
but for all the we encountered who
were influenced by our actions.
28 November 2020
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