Saturday, January 3, 2009

minute by minute

quiet
be still
voices
compel
me to
listen
to their
outrageous
obsessions

trying
to drag
me in
on their
lines
of promise
and grandiose
melodrama
of love
and perfection

when all
I've got
to work with
is utter
imperfection

my humanity
his humanity
her humanity
our humanity

bumping
into out
dreams
crowding
the room
with expectations
hardly
able to breathe
any more

and
if you can't
find a way to
laugh at it all
you are doomed

so minute by minute
is all I can muster
heart beat
by heart beat
breath
by breath

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