And so on

The sun has set and I can’t find the moon

Any light at this hours is artificial.

Awaiting the earth turn, my face aging with all the tears,

I go sleeplessly unnoticed appreciating the not so quiet dark.

March

Not a verb but a feeling,

cold mostly.

The Ides of dark clouds,

hidden hope

of things not yet.

An ache to the bone of want and weather.

Tilting planets and ticking tempests

all teasing and testing

a season to come.

Collapse

From outside in

survival props subdue the fears inside,

where life is lost in battle songs

though oft their words forgot.

Survival brain protects and stands

against, and never for.

Safe until the moon sets close-

a quiet tremor felt

hushing winds

and with the sigh

you find

the self that fell apart.

Forget

Time and hope together dance

twirling drunken steps

like wind tossed clouds

circling skies

day and night beset

An unfixed pattern soon takes form

when pain forgets the hour

and moons of night billow loud as sunrise wakes regret.

Racism

White life speeds unimpeded by lights, flashes

History on their side

Fear not pulsing

Violently staying in their lanes, views

Blind and asleep.

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