Acquiesce

These nights emerge 

And darkness sweeps a formidable collage

Teeth bleed and kindness crawls

White extorts from marvelous oblation 

Colors of absent wrinkled faces under red and

Smelly sheets

 

I wake to the bottle

But answers fail in heavy day discharge 

Her voice morphs in my parallel

Both staring the distance to the door

 

The memory burns my empty hand

She weeps

The familiar stray dogs

Now unfamiliar sounds

Pleas are so cliché

 and with its clawed limbs our infant walks free

Your last internal melancholy

Strikes in match

Alive forever is only nice appeal

 

An easy cut disrupts a moment...

Your face turns to stairs

The black weaves schoolyard sweater days

Sun drenched thighs

Occasionally we are all from October

When nights were stars that lay casually smoking and

Street lamps did not fashion into quivering whys

Your units easily digest within

 her dazed and vacant eyes

 

The darkness decentered and

Your path returns

The streams over the slowing innocence

The voices are silenced

Beds are laid in calm regard

But this city always did feel best in November

At least in winter

Life knows

when to die

Author's Note

wip

Reviews

[Phalen Schuyler]

I haven't reviewed, I haven't set my eyes on a poem in quite some time.
I haven't paid a visit to the café in awhile.

But when I saw your username I remembered your writing.
I'm not sure if I'm remembered, myself.

"At least in winter
Life knows
when to die"

There isn't a single line that can sum up the whole of humanity better than that.

[Perdition]

You are remembered very well indeed.How could I possibly forget. Every word that comes with these wonderful reviews as if I have reached out on some connection, if only in some small way, well, it is beautiful offering. This last sentence in your review, Phalen, has left me renewed in a multitude. Thank you so very much. Just when I was about to burn all that has suffered from out my hand you, come along to tell me that I am not alone in the feeling of this. A HUGE hug for that :)