Tuesday, June 4, 2024

The beating drum May 21, 2024

  

It is not supposed to be

Like this, all this time later,

A flash back,

And LSD drip

Without the benefit

Of LSD,

A man can’t revisit

This without

Feeling again

What he felt before,

The same intensity,

The heat that scalds

Down deep into the bones,

Even at a distance,

Even when he resists

The throb of it,

A steady unrelenting

Drum beat,

Pounding up from

His soul,

As if no time has passed

And we sit still

In the deep dark,

Speaking without words,

Hearing the hum

Of something I only

Thought I imagined

Back then.

A man cannot go back

In time and expect

To remain unaffected,

Unchanged,

Or perhaps worse,

More of the same,

Feeling the beat of it

Pounding on his insides

Like something

Aching to get out.


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