6:59 AM
I've been told
that people in the army do more by 7:00 AM
than I do in an entire day,
but if I wake at 6:59 AM
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips with mine,
I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.
#poetry
#poem
THE MOTHS
There's a kind of white moth, I don't know what kind, that glimmers
by mid-May
in the forest,
just as the pink moccasin flowers are rising.
If you notice anything,
it leads you to notice more
and more.
And anyway
I was so full of energy.
I was always running around, looking at this and that.
If I stopped
the pain was unbearable.
If I stopped and thought, maybe the world can't be saved,
the pain was unbearable.
#poetry
I donβt like using the term βlove of my lifeβ simply because I donβt believe one knows who the love of his life is until, well, nearing the end of life. It probably wonβt be until youβre old and gray that you have clarity about who your heart belonged to the most intensely. Otherwise, itβs just the βlove of my life *so far*β