Sunday, June 16, 2024

Ripping open an old wound May 2012

 


She is right

I am wrong.

how to escape

 the rut I’m stuck in,

how to stop being wrong,

my saying sorry will never be enough.

I am as drunk now

As I was that night in the bar

Even though I got no more

than one sip,

drunk on something I breath in

or dream up,

 or fumble ove

r in this confusing life

of fog that I exist in

I can only glimpse

the fog of fear she contends with,

scared to death

after I ripped off by accident

a long-time healing scab

she gets to bleed again

 from an old wound

I made more painful

her cry over the cell phone

reverberating through me

like the echo of a gunshot,

 evidence of a crime I committed

 and a felony from which

 I will never be acquitted,

 destined to eternally stand trial,

 rolling the boulder up

one side of the hill

only to have it roll down the other

start again

 



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