Vacancy

The night has many stories and some know them all.

 

The neon kisses the sidewalk below embracing strangers as they pass
in all directions none seem towards home.
Dirty sidewalks and the slums splendor Im a gatekeeper of despair and hard
luck just living for the bells chime to echo from the counter.

Drunks and w****s gather within my confines the outcasts of the night my people
seldom will I ever know more than a signature upon the page.
Moths drawn together attaracted by neon light.
Tommorows not a promise so embrace feeling and grow numb in reflex for now.


Are we not twisted from exposher numb from the streets brutal truth?
I count the hours a television for companion a bottle a often short staying vistor
who's welcome till the hangover's regret.

Some pills to drive my thoughts and a fresh pot of coffee to fuel my engine
tIme kills even the most unfaded of us all.
And through the night they gather some to escape the cold others for a quick escape
or fast f**k to forget as if in a Halloween costume soon they'll return to there true act
of a life.

Embrace as lover's when there nothing more than roomates hey kids were doing great
you coming home for Christmas this year?
And so they like well trained actors reprise there roles.

But i see there mess allnight I collect the rejects nothing more but fragments
glass that reflect what they wish could never be.
If only we could rewind.
But life's highway cant be retraced so on we roll.

I  collect there money and take down there names the keeper of memories
tattered wings fly none the less.
As for the women the far away stares are but shared thoughts of a misery
more bitter we drink from the same passed down glass.

Some things just don't have to be said to be understood.
The nights my watch my vices fuel me for yet another round.
the neon signs my beacon And the moths glide to flame with the turning of the switch.

Were all fucked up but seldom can some show the flaws .
I embrace them unspoken please sign here.
Tommorows walk we'll pretend to not see for we all need to feel
invisible sometIme.

The end of my shift bids farewell to my collected chaos tired we've become in constant
recollection the light is off for now.

Reviews

[EMMIE]

VERY INTERESTING. LOVE THE IMAGERY AND THE CONCEPT, WRITTEN IN A CREATIVE AND UNIQUE WAY. GREAT JOB!

[Kat Collins]

The bartender usually knows all that's going on at night. He's the ever watchful eye over his dominion, tending to his flock of chaotic sheep. You capture the midnight, all-night, early-spell life of the nightcrawlers. Loved it!

[An owl on the moon]

I used to work the graveyard shift at a hotel... Your poetry captured that sense of the night stories... of lives mingling and missing... hovering on the edge of existence... wrapped in the dark shadows of night... Profoundly painful and moving...

[Ruth]

Wow! This is consuming love, truly paints a crytsal clear canvas! Nothing is plain sailing or black and white, many shades in-between! You verse that poignantly! Great piece! xoxo

[joshua deathdealer]

This write paints a vivid picture. I love how you opened with "The neon kisses the sidewalk" and the flow. I really enjoyed this read..xx