Best you never took heed
Cognizant eyes sank
quicker than a December sun
Blind leading the blind, learning to use other senses
Don’t think it gets easy
Prove that I don’t fall victim to perpetuals
Prove there’s a forgiveness above the heads of malignant
These walls seep archaic,
I caught myself trading secrets with the moon
Spilling my guts from the mind of another
A man’s only as good as his word, I’ve been lacking
Whatever will be, I’ll be
You missed their landscape, took other decor
Smiling through every bout of anguish,
I’ve watched the second hand chase minutes longer than I should’ve
Dismissing every cold Winter
You’ll give it back for gray skies, I promise
Fingertips brushing antiquities amongst lakeside shores,
The sand, waves, tattered sails, all of it besmirching
But you’ll soon see
The most comforting smiles come from around the strangest corners
Never knowing when or why
It’s what you’ll learn to admire, the wait
Waiting for nothing until something becomes everything
Seizing every ordinary,
Every memory, every necessity
Tasting life through trial and error
Keeping every season, stories written on lines of an aging face
The gift of listening
Embracing pasts left unheard under floorboards
Using ears as they should be
Excusing myself from neglected post-marks and impotent years
I’ll measure time, not in minutes
But in smirks and sunrise
Begging for days to
Teach me something
Withered and still learning, withered and learning