Drowning and Drought

Firstly, you’re fucking right I’m fierce.

You think you know, but you have no idea.

One day you won’t speak to me tomorrow.
That should be today, or yesterday or
The day before that, or even, my bad, the day before that…

But you have made me too weak.

When that day comes, depends on
When my fierce takes over my feeble
And all these little words will cease.

I fear that,
from the aching confusion
the breaking illusions,
the slow reveal
and the pain I feel,
the fuming
the feuding
and the fluent tears
that fall fast;

each one washing away delusion,

that that day will soon come.

See,

I let you melt me.

I trusted you

With all the liquid me.

With me, with my body,

My mind, my being,

I was completely free.

And all the melted me

filled you up.

For a while, I was worthy

Til you quit being thirsty.

The Memory Man

I stand

at the gate that squeaks

when it moves to meet

the rest of itself.

A viscous collision occurs

as metal meets metal and

flakes of rust are disturbed

in the force of the thrust.

I wait in the wind for the

memory man to find his wings

and bring the broken

songs he sings for us.

I recall last spring when

the squeaking gate squeaked

and my waiting ceased,

when I rushed to greet you,

I moved to meet you;

the rest of myself.

As he sings to the beat

of the squeak,

and the thrust

of metal on metal,

the flaking rust,

I think of us.