Monday, August 21, 2017

#29: Before I Go

It's the little untruths
That slip over the edge of
Your sunset and begin
The earliest of my morning

Cup of coffee,
Spilling sideways, streaking
Another little pattern over
The old table

Standing there-
You'd never know how
Easy it is to break
Words down into

Silences that creep
Out of the edge of my 
Nightmares, shimmying their
ghastly way 

Up my throat
And down yours.

I'm afraid I have been
The witch and the face 
The mirror told you
Should stay away.

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