emotions bleed
ink

tear pools dry this season
but ink flows from brooding clouds
soon a monsoon
despite drought
and famine
and epidemic

my death is slow
earned
and perhaps torturous
enough to escape me

royal blood of blue thought
paints before me

and I
catatonic
stare in disbelief
at all that is
my life

dripping into pools
of paragraphs I'll soon forget
if I don't downpour them
into puddles of

poems

07/13/2002

Posted on 07/13/2002
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