Thursday, July 4, 2024

Not a nightmare after all April 9, 2012

 


I wake up still dreaming

in a nightmare not quite my own,

she telling me what she needed to do

after we parted ways after the bar,

her need to find another partner

 to complete only what

 my imagination had envisioned for me,

as if I had put out another fire

and pretended I was someone

 who I am not,

she seeking out the most

dangerous person she could find,

to work something out she could not

 work out with me,

 while listening I ache

both wishing I was as bad as he was

 so she would work it out with me,

having no right to feel the way I do,

and yet feeling that way anyway.

It's only a working things out fuck,

 she said nonchalantly,

while I pray to wake up.

 

 


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