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Friday, December 2, 2022

The Checkered Tiger

No distractions can fill it, 

No path will lead it. 

So much was left on the table. 


My thoughts blend like taffy, 

Your sweet bright colors swirl into the mind’s black abyss. 

I look at the future backwards 

Getting drawn into the hallucinogenic minutia 

Snapping at fireflies. 


The minds mirror maze, 

Each turn loops back on itself 

Where you spend your days dancing with ghosts 

As reason impales you on the dreams of tommorow. 


Each day bleeds into the next 

Beating the drums of loneliness, 

The well-groomed precession of empty picture frames 

Each marching one to the next,

 Decorating empty walls 

In a forgotten home. 


No safe harbor in your eyes, 

Only solitary vapid thoughts 

Churning out nothingness 

Leaving nothingness in its wake. 


Sandcastles built on supposition 

Mixed with arbitrary fascination 

And sprinkled with upended compassion. 

A puppet with its own back story 

Hung around my neck like the albatross. 


I find your footprints when gaze lingers on my mausoleum, 

I can feel your heat as you pass by, 

I would have poured what was left into you. 


If it were destined to be it would. 


A teacup just won’t do after years of drinking straight from the hose, 

It was never meant to be sip by sip. 

If I don’t have another endless ocean, 

No boundless infinity stretching from stem to stern, 

Then the island I will become. 


The exit wound it leaves can only be filled with what was lost, 

No substitute can fool the guards. 

Mindless pursuit, one after the other, 

Each just as hallow as the last


Life was designed as a duet and once it ends you learn to live in the absence of light. 

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