Sad Poems : Alcoholic Poet: Nevertheless Sad Poetry.

Alcoholic Poet. Poetry Equals Distance Over Time.

Distance Over Time
Monday 2/10/2020 11:36:00 PM

we lingered in the artifacts. pretending to read the pages that had been torn out. we listened as the rain began to fall. a million needles hitting our skin.

there's no armor. no bridge. no place that can take us there again.

the crippled ghosts debate with their ladders. how high they can get.

we try to remember ourselves, but tomorrow erases us over and over again.

the intersection tenses. we look both ways. but we don't see what's too close.

time stumbles over the miles that make us. we try to run, but its weight is too much.

the pinch of god destroys us. as we suffocate in its empty epiphany. animals in a muzzle.

flesh listens. when no one else will. an unbreakable bridge between who we are and who we've become.

we touch. and the logic overwhelms. it's always been this simple.

2 comments:
Sunshine said...

So dark, so much sorrow. Your poems are hauntingly and disturbingly full of so much unrelenting pain! At least you have a place to release the seemingly endless sea of sadness and entrapment.

alcholic poet said...

thanks for your feedback. that's always appreciated. but you know, from my perspective this one is actually hopeful.

i prefer sad subjects, obviously, but i just draw on the past for that. i pick and choose moments, memories and events that interest me, but they actually account for small portions of my life.

it's just the sad stuff that happens to be my muse.

thank you for reading.




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