Thursday, July 18, 2024

Stuck on the side of the highway with no spare May 4, 2012

 


Love is not lust,

 otherwise I might have enough.

This division of feeling I feel

yet can't divide or decide

which is which and which

 I ought to feel at which moment,

 my imagination painting unreal

 portraits of what should be,

not so much disappointed

 by the reality when it comes,

but deeply awed.

I am unworthy to receive this,

this message vibrates inside me until I can't.

Things stirred up yet not quite enough to explode

, like a hornets' nest I have stuck part of myself into

only to get stung, confusing one sensation for another

 until i can't tell which is which

and find myself aching for something I can't achieve,

 like a driver in a Mercedes with a flat tire

 on the side of highway with no spare,

envying the men speeding by me,

each having a clear destination

 and how to get there.

 


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