Nowhere

Cold has a taste

A leather glove forming new treatises

A firm slap, desire or disgust

Same face, same coin, spent and gone

The clean up on aisle three is a tease

A ruse, clever distraction

The forthcoming apocalypse ripening, imminent eruption

I look across the table

"You're done with me."

"Yeah."

"You keeping the dog?"

"Yeah."

If there was a victory, I didn't see it

The dull gratification, thinking only of ones self

I paid the tab and left to nowhere

Nowhere seemed the perfect destination

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

We humans are very often self-aware and self-preserving. I don't know that it makes us "self-centered" because really, who do we have more of a vested interest in than ourselves? We have to take care of ourselves before we can take care of others and I think a certain amount of self-love is healthy along with self-respect. It's the "extremes" like selfishness with no consideration for others at all or the narcissistic mindset that we need to be wary of in my opinion. It's okay to stand up for yourself, in business deals protecting our interests or in romance, protecting our personal space and decision making. And it's okay to have clearly defined boundaries of where "we" end and "I' begin. Marriage often tends to blur those lines however, as I feel it should. We sacrifice "self" for the benefit of the new whole in matrimony. That sacrifice is why they call it a wedding "altar". But up to that point defending our personal interests in a relationship is often better and smarter than emotional surrender. Thanks for the thought invoking read, my friend. I enjoyed.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

I'll never be done with your writing Cee...everytime I come back from "nowhere" it teases me! Lol

[Poetic Beauty]

The end of this poem is like a punch in the gut or swallowing a boulder heavy and unmoving.

Many relationships end this way and how this situation came to be doesn’t matter. It’s the turning point and yeah nowhere to go and going nowhere. That’s how it feels emotionally and mentally