Three poems all written within the last few months, in no specific order. I hope you enjoy.
RELIVING YOU
pallor pale, cold,
rough skin pocked,
pain blackened eyes,
nails bit to the root.
I recount details,
marks noted hatefully,
minor feelings enlarged
to sizes meaningful.
This is when I see you
for who you really are
just an ogre with a smile
and a cavernous heart.
I need your brand of pain
it consumes me like a drug
you see, the junkie heart inside me
thrives on callous blood.
KEEP HOPE A LIE
Promise me,
peeled, painted fences
and over-grown grasses
calling for a cutting,
sunshine rich enough to burn,
calm waking moments
lacking fear of touching.
lie to me,
tell me stories
about our life to come
when we can muse about forever
without embarrassing fragile Truth
or twisting unbending Fact.
and let me listen without doubt
or skeptical logic
about a created world
full of fictitious beauty.
I want to live in a world
where truth grows to change
with each passing season
and fear is crushed by
slight, calming breezes.
The passive sound of falsehood
will ring glorious in my ears,
your voice will soothe my doubts
and hope will reach my touch.
ALLEGRA
Fear clasps my shoulders
then twists into anger
with reckless endangerment
but it’s alright with me.
my heart pounds
like the broken engine mounts
under the hood of our
not too long for the road car.
crossing Montana, endlessly
two lanes stretch out before us
as we make a break for destinations
hidden from Denver’s responsibilities.
you and I have mind alike
missing parts and filled with
just a few too many thoughts
but it’s alright with you.
we’ve gone far
and not far enough
to stop and fix this car.
the horizon pulls us on
to thunder storms, complete
where electric atmosphere
collapses panicked thoughts
while your hand falls into mine,
finally.
Justin Dixon