Friday, August 15, 2025

Driftwood and cosmetic dreams (1976)

  

The promises break like waves on a shore, pieces of heart strewn like shattered glass between the rip wrap, love always reaching me in pieces I can’t mend,

I’m not the only one lost along this particular stretch of beach where the heart-broken come, all that glitters may only be glass, no pirate’s treasure to dig up, only memories to bury, cosmetic dreams, the hidden agendas, we like driftwood, unable to make our way back to where we came or regain what we had. She is a distant sail sailing away, perhaps not even aware in the glare of sunlight on the sea.

How do we rescue ourselves, put the pieces of glass back together on this beach of lost souls, dreaming always cosmetic dreams, slowing being bleached by our sorrow, the wave washing at our feet carrying the detritus of our lives, driftwood, shattered glass, hollowness inside.


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