September 5, 2019Missive

I will carry on as normal and what will be, will be.

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I will carry on as normal and what will be, will be.

Put it in a box

Carefully packed

Turn the key

Store it safely away

Compartmentalised

Buried beneath

Sagebrush and dried

Leaves

Worry beads and

Rotten apples

Blown into corners

Clearing enough space

For tomorrow

When fresh winds

Will blow

Dust in your eyes

Is a solution

To the confusion

Of living on the edge

Of madness,

Juggling every new day

With one hand

As the other one

Remains

Holding back the wall

Until the fall

When the seasons

Come together

The sharpness

Of recollections blur

Old boxes

You forgot were ever there

Tumble down

From dusty shelves

In a jumble of disarray

Brittle papers

With curled edges

Crumble on the floor

Answers to the questions

You forgot

Were ever asked

Lie

Bleeding

Broken promises

Crash headlong

Into daydreams

To bring nightmares

Out of sleep

When disorder rules

There is no reminiscence

Nor sepia-toned

Gentle sunset

For old bones

Just the fright

Of an unfamiliar shadow

Wall dancing

Through the hollow

Of another

Elongated night

When timberwolves

Come out

To bite.