I wait until the last minute
As if I know my last minute
I could vanish in the interim
Lose my passion in the waiting room
My ideals are stronger than my will
Some days
I barely do what I feel
Some days
These days
I’ve seen my best
I’ve seen my worst
Procrastination is only poetic
If the form is blank verse...
Satisfaction after love’s recreated.
Respite realized in the river
Released from restraints
I’m not a prisoner of fate
when I’m with her.
The hands of Time stand
erect, still
at the hour
and minute
our gazes met.
Lingering
in
that moment
Sustaining the feeling
Puppy scratches
snatch me
from peace on Earth.
It was all becoming real...
God is an omniscient NPC.
If you believe that, don’t pray.
King Saul consulted a medium
To contact the prophet beyond the grave.
The Lord no longer answered his prayers
So he pleaded
with the medium
to practice the very magic he banned.
When the Source leans away,
The desperate search for a conduit
Even if it’s not the proper channel.
When your estranged lover
blocks your number,
You call...
Ethiopian food joints
Copious bus stops
Vagabonds, passersby
Green line beneath footsteps
Quincy street,
My mind has gerrymandered you
In favor of my safety.
The world is small in this big city.
My lover rests on the outskirts
Towards the end of the line.
The people who will be my neighbors
are still quiet threats,
Creeping with their puppies.
I see them
I know them not
My dog needs to reli...
As I looked into your eyes, I saw my future go up in flames.
The future that I thought I wanted:
Money, status, security.
All wrapped in a blaze of ambiguity.
Sparks of my true aspiration
jumped off the flame
Called my name
and beckoned me
into the burning belief.
I stepped into the fire
unscathed
And saw
it was only my doubt
that was set ablaze...
Her face is often inquisitive.
Questions form around her cheeks,
and leave her mouth effortlessly.
Though my language is not her first,
Her tongue finds ways to contort to English.
Gentle yet hesitate smile
Pronounced dimples
Especially on the left.
Subtle semi circles beneath her blue eyes
that meet mine when I glance
At the beauty mark just below her scalp
Placed on the left of her forehead...
