do not slip away

 do not slip away                           swift voice

 

  

   made of river                            always in flow

 

 

  tell me how night feels 5 minutes after it rains                           before you walk home alone?

 

 

 Why do all these trees                                     explode with nitroglycerin  inside my heart?

 

They leap with Flame                                      my dirty         trampled face      before You.....

 

Night cleaned by Heaven,  smell of   grass like showered children

 

 

Small black bag slung over my shoulder                       

                                                                     filled with journals  books   work gloves    tooth brush 

 

small treasures    carried forever           

 

 

divine words     bleed    in longing         to be heard

 

   everyone   cracked                                           by   time

 

Rumi touched my heart and                                            slipped     away

 

(a sea with no shore)

 

restless as War....

 

 

   I walk on               noticing green horn high school kids screaming and carrying on

 

hope like honey dripping                profusely from their   eyes

 

I pray it does not get eaten                               by bears.

 

High heels click in your dreams                        down a sidewalk    by     a    woman   you cannot    see

 

imagination       burns                    and stirs              teeth chattering winds         carry    rainbow  crunched leaves

 

down       November   Oblivion.

 

Friends keep calling                     wanting me to booze up

 

I just want to write                       but can't find trapped words        to set the     caged     beast    free.

 

Keep clawing at rocky    ground                            can't give up  now

 

gaze through walls   for anything      to spark,               ignore the phone calls

 

dig through Dictionary.....                           do not   slip    away          swift voice         I need You!!!!!

 

There's a secret nomad   wandering my heart      out  of sync with the world

 

I need time to set you free                  his dirty black face              mud on skin

 

his indifferent, nitroglycerin stare     slaps me harder than a tree falling on my head,   (I know it happened the other day while working)

 

his silent walk     soft as shadows crossing lawns

 

his strong voice trying to break through static               I put my ear to the ground   

 

I swallow gravel and sandstone                   my shovel blade has been through so much wear and tear    it's missing pieces of metal along the arc

 

do not slip away

 

she winked at me from heaven                             I found hope lost in hell

 

I touched abandonment       it felt like a lone wet leaf  ripped from tree    that wanted to go back

 

I try to forget her lovely   curves       by thrashing in bed                  can't sleep a wink

 

Fall leaves like an art puzzle    left open for interpretation litter every street.

 

  restless nomad   wandering my heart

 

do not slip away     do not   slip    away   

 

O' swift voice 

 

made of river                      always in flow

 

tell me how night feels 5 minutes after it rains    before you walk home alone?

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[Sami Khalil]

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