Grizzled

 

You want a revelation. Dancing around vacantstreets with graffiti-linedwalls. Tears as blue drops,plastered on muted concrete. I want a revolution. Ask me how I escape.Ask me how I forgive.How I gather my heartlike a grizzly, desperatefor hibernation.Ask me how I sleep.(Not next to you).Dreamless, & on a bed of nailswith pillows of prayer & curtainsof burning dawn.Ask me how the house still stands,bleeding with your ghost.I’ve taken a shotgun to the cabinets.I’ve hidden bullets in the drawers.I use the ice cream scoop to measureout borrowed silence. I use the mailboxto barter with broken time. There is a bridge my heart jumpsoff, just to feel alive.Ask me how the water feels.Ask me how I dance with the fish.I use my bare hands as bait.I dangle my limbs for the taking.Ask me if I hesitate before takeoff.Watch as I never second guess the fall.

 Photo by Clem Onojeghuo