Friday, September 10, 2010

Oh the Wells Fargo Wagon

September 10

Oh the Wells Fargo Wagon

Tying myself to one rail of a set of railroad tracks gets me the same results as tying myself to the other. Swapping one chemical fix for another is like changing my socks in a rainstorm, nothing dry will come of it. Not seeing potential harm does not eliminate the harm. Like a child with my hands pressed firmly over my eyes I yell, “You can’t see me,” and run headlong into disaster. Whether the train comes and makes a mess or not I make my own soup Ducky and must get on track by staying off the rails.

Go relax on the porch of your imagination

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WILD

When I run wild through the rain

My hair streaming behind me

Water fleeing my face

I see with my heart

The thousand other rains

Pouring from my past.

How I peel from me the soaking luggage

Covering my naked pain

Nothing drives me to the cozy retreat

Of my bed like the humid chill

Of an early fall drizzle.

I slip my trembling skin between the comfort

And the comforter, flex my toes,

Towel my hair, wipe scenes of lost love

From my pale, pale soul.

Leaves rush my gutters, clog my mind.

I see the change in me as I turn heel to heel.

Trees spinning bare in a blank wet world,

I know this ever relived fluid, recycled life.

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