tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7837516.post-1166571936143069682006-12-19T17:37:00.000-06:002007-02-03T06:49:09.646-06:00<span style="font-family:arial;">Wednesday 11/29/2006<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:180%;">Hot Drunken Foolish Tears</span></em></strong><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Hot tears flow like they haven't fell in so very long.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Moments since I dropped you off</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">all these drunken words ring.I feel your suffering.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I feel your need.I feel your aloneness.I feel your desire.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We scream together.We talk together.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and I understand everything.everymotherfucking thing that</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">you say and feel, perfectly,and no one,absolutely no one else</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">gets it, accepts it, feels it, understands it</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">like me.You make me feel open, vunerable,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">in ways I haven't felt in many many years</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">but different because even with the feelings then, </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">there were differences</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and I have never, ever felt the same</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">as someone else, the same inside,as I do with you.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">At the bar, you talk of other men near</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">the young and pretty</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">less damaged, less deep, less real</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">as if that is what you want.instead of me.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I'm not the youngest</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">the prettiest</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">the most simple.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">the most fashionable.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I am flawed.I am however the deepest, m</span><span style="font-family:arial;">ost real</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">most profoundly honest</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">perfect reflection of your soul, </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and a hell of a lot better</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">than any of these others</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">in every single possible way</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">that truly matters.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I mumble these words</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I feel them slip on by and I suspect that </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">you don't want me, and maybe never will.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It feels like tigers claws in the gut.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We laugh.I'm there for you. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I offer support and strength, tiny bits of wisdom, </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I mean every single word with more truth and heart </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">than any words I could ever speak.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">You are sad and you are alone as am I.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">You are cursed and blessed with </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">awareness of the emptiness of the world. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">the void, a curse and blessing I have known</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">for quite some time.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We are the same, but you seem new in some ways </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">at this survival endeavor</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">eyes of the poet looking for the beauty behind the suffering</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I know it, it is real and it is not in the things of the world</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and absolutly not in the people of the world, </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">not in expectations.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">But Satori is a gift not easily given.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I drop you off. I pull awayand then I am alone too.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I feel that empty feeling too.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I wish that you wanted me.as I want you.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I wish that you saw me.as I see you</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I wish that you got me.as I get you.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I wish that you, feel what I do</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">the way I haven't in so very long if ever.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So yeah, I cry warm tears</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and breathe short empty breaths</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">with a hollow heart.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">remembering what it is to feel.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and if you are alone at home</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">while I type this</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and you still think that no one gets you.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and you still think that no one understands </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and you still think that no one loves you</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">still think that existence is less than just.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and you are crying too,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and you are there</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and I am here</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">then you are right, terribly right.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and it is far far worse and alone,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">than I ever imagined it could be</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and that is saying a lot.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">while I sleep the sleep</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">of the damn</span>ed.POETICUS MUNDIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17602559936476616574noreply@blogger.com