Wasn't until

My body
collapsed that
my mind
could comprehend
the variables
properly.

Don't just walk

Wasn't until
pain began to take
hold of body, that
I thought to dance
atop it all___
w/ glee.

Truth (for moral)

Spent most
of my life petrified, &
it wasn't until I started
to die that I realized
what it is to be
alive.

Cage

What's locked
inside
may just eat you
alive___,
better
pop that bitch
soz it don't stick
too long.

The price

Nothing in this life
comes gratis, cuz
everything you've got
you gotta work for,
& once you've got it,
you've gotta
maintain the right
to keep it.

Around the sun

When the summer
heat wave
finally breaks
into fall, the earth
smells like
the body that
rots.

At final rest

Death
comes knocking,
the clock stops ticking
& then___
comes the final relief.

R.I.P. Dr. Larry Keithley

What's in frame

You know
that to survive,
it must be still framed in
the mind, that all
& everything
will be
just___ fine.

What moves on its own, but is only seen still

At
104 degrees, under
a solid blue Texas sky, she
emitted the sound of a tremble
into the phone & exclaimed,
"Holy shit, when you said that
chills went up my arms!"
after I gave out the events
leading up to my
31st birthday.

The 'attachments'

'Sometimes
I go crazy wondering
what you are thinking.
& you know___
even if you give all
the right answers
I still know
you are somewhere else.
& I'm starting to wonder if you
just can't help it, like there is
a whole other world you are in
that I can't see.
When I'm w/ you, it's like being an
attachment to something else, &
not a part of the whole.'

Usually, there's no way to directly convey
what I'm thinking. Even if I have the words___
they aren't understood when said.
& not a single one of them took to comprehending
my feelings on not being able to
not be somewhere else.