YOU NEVER SAID GOODBYE
You never said goodbye...
No word, no sound.
Just drifted quietly inward
into dirty river blues
wearing yesterday's
dark debris and murky weed,
draped and drawn
upon your shoreline.
But your fixed frame kept firm,
laughing and lounging
at the edge of denial
just waiting,
to stake your claim
among your avid admirers.
You seem tired
holding up integrity
bobbing and weaving
in ripples of green sickness
immersed in cloudy grey,
charcoal character.
- CLOSED OFF -
To freshwater rain and otherwise,
a nuisance to wise
and steady on-lookers.
Perhaps,
you think food for like-minded
ship worms?
But more so,
a foundation decomposed.
Yellow sand quickens,
escapes time
like annual growth rings
eventually fade into echoes.
You are a delinquent maze
of attractions.
Distractions-
It ‘s way too difficult
to find my way
inside those irregular grooves
and unstable paths.
I can't speak in silence-
You never said goodbye…
(Taken by the girl)
You took advantage!
She doesn’t sense
your cunning influence
and feeble charms.
The snake is awake, she said-
You crawl and slither,
your underbelly calloused
and torn.
You can’t stand in truth!
No, you lie cold and undetected,
submerged,
in the recurring nightmare.
You rest in the dark cavity
in and behind absent black eyes-
Watch your step they said,
don’t provoke the nest.
The predator stings
through broken teeth.
Confusion catches caterpillars
before they bloom.
He’s got you in his mouth,
a mouth full of himself-
He's incapable of saying anything.
So, I'll say it for him-
- Tiny Poet, You Never Said Goodbye, 2016
No word, no sound.
Just drifted quietly inward
into dirty river blues
wearing yesterday's
dark debris and murky weed,
draped and drawn
upon your shoreline.
But your fixed frame kept firm,
laughing and lounging
at the edge of denial
just waiting,
to stake your claim
among your avid admirers.
You seem tired
holding up integrity
bobbing and weaving
in ripples of green sickness
immersed in cloudy grey,
charcoal character.
- CLOSED OFF -
To freshwater rain and otherwise,
a nuisance to wise
and steady on-lookers.
Perhaps,
you think food for like-minded
ship worms?
But more so,
a foundation decomposed.
Yellow sand quickens,
escapes time
like annual growth rings
eventually fade into echoes.
You are a delinquent maze
of attractions.
Distractions-
It ‘s way too difficult
to find my way
inside those irregular grooves
and unstable paths.
I can't speak in silence-
You never said goodbye…
(Taken by the girl)
You took advantage!
She doesn’t sense
your cunning influence
and feeble charms.
The snake is awake, she said-
You crawl and slither,
your underbelly calloused
and torn.
You can’t stand in truth!
No, you lie cold and undetected,
submerged,
in the recurring nightmare.
You rest in the dark cavity
in and behind absent black eyes-
Watch your step they said,
don’t provoke the nest.
The predator stings
through broken teeth.
Confusion catches caterpillars
before they bloom.
He’s got you in his mouth,
a mouth full of himself-
He's incapable of saying anything.
So, I'll say it for him-
- Tiny Poet, You Never Said Goodbye, 2016