Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Wasteland?

My memory is spotted,
vast emptiness otherwise scattered
with traumas and pinpoints
of happiness in a dusky life,
and it weighs these the same.

I am melting; the memories
I do have war against themselves
fighting to stay submerged -
or perhaps I'm the one
pushing them back down.

Somewhere I realize,
faded into another hour of thought,
this all will exist always
but I have room in there
for new things, too.

Calmer

In the center of my mind
you come in with
organizers and soft cloths
shining like headlights
coming up the driveway