Dead End Dirt Lot Diaries 7.31.2023
“What Else Will I lose Before the End?”
Each day I wake up and fill my daily missions
Fill each empty questmark box
Shower, brush, eat, work
Fill the care meter up to max
And the body will want to thrive
Each season that seems to pass
Is a season pass full of events to meet
New morning glories to greet
Work and work and work
I toil away on adventures mundane
Am I grinding stats or an NPC
Lose one piece and fall apart
Tears will weep
Storms will start
Too quick the world begins to crumble, soak and seep
A listening ear, no clinking sound
Look and look, may not be found
The sun drags long with water-level eyes
Difficult to solve with puzzles and lies
Shower, worry, brush, worry, eat, worry, work, worry, sleep
Worry, sleep, worry, sleep, worry, sleep, weep
Each morning rise, to fulfill each daily task
Please let me find each piece within its place, is all I ask
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unbridled
how does softness remain? you’re overwhelming in the exact manner
i need you to be – all-encompassing like gravity, i fall to you always.
there are better ways to illustrate my point, but i fail often with words;
there’s never enough words to capture the depth of this yearning for
you. perhaps, this is a side-effect of being malleable by your hands only,
maybe one has to become inundated with all types of love to categorize
whatever this is, maybe we stumbled across something new. dawn brings
something new, and here i am, angry at sunrise for taking away the same
moon that watches over you. i've never been scared of spilling, i'm certain
you’ll find just the right vessel to catch me in. i never know where you end
and where i begin; you’ve convinced me of the infinite. i’ll tear myself apart
and find what remains. how do your words remain? how do you still remain?
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Deciding Embers Vol.4, 12.19.23
"Carpenter's Son"
Amongst the blood,
The thorny and thorny jeers
The leers and weary burdened cheers
Oh prince, oh, child of ours
Did the hammered nails ring like home?
The timber in the breeze send you to think
Of a present father lacquered , labored, lacking hands
Did you cry out for him, for mother, or for home
For a moment did the crowd subside
Within your memories, your childhood hide
A place no stake, nor spear can reach
Anointed, bloody star above
Think soft of home
Think soft, of love
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(Poe[M)ay] 5.6.2022
“Adult Words”
I was raised with
Tenets, laws, rules, and pillars
A child with words plunged in my cheeks
Holding them as a chipmunk would
Horde nuts, treasures, for the safekeeping
Words without meaning
Could be heard through the cafeteria
One small conversation rising to meet the others
Before falling quiet
To carry phonemes,
Like foes to the canals of others
Who did not swim the river of secrets
Betraying me to the rapids
That others were never meant to know
What is a child supposed to do
With integrity? Thrifty? Courtesy?
Exemplifying, let alone spelling
Was too daunting a task to spell this sentence
They hung loose in my mouth
Primed to fall like baby teeth
Before I could truly use them
What use is a upstanding member of society
To a ten-year old whose entire world exists
Barely beyond his home and school
I was raised like a barn,
Not with a single pair of hands could I be built
One family alone cannot accomplish
What was retained
Attained through that hoarding of words
Character was a word to describe stories and cartoons
And myself, when no one was looking.
With the word good or bad,
I kept behind my canines
Ready to bite into new meanings
I needed braces and retainers
To keep my new words in place
Still soft on my gums, on my eyes
Blurring the letters together till
Tinted, twisted lenses burned them into focus
Into purpose
And understanding
@env0writes C.Buck
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