Archive for the ‘Forever’ Category

It was 20 years ago tonight that my wife elbowed me at 1:30 in the morning saying, “My water just broke. Get some sleep.”Get some sleep?Yeah, right.I called Pamela’s mom and told her to come over immediately (to watch a sleeping 3 year-old Sarah) and it wasn’t soon after that we were changed and in [...]

 
He stares blindly out the window of another night down on Bleeker Street, where nothing seem to change except a world gone mad.He exists.I exist.I go to him, touch his shoulder feeling the quivering bone underneath my handbut he doesn’t move, nobody is home it seems.As I bend to kiss his forehead, I think back [...]

To my wife . . .
(and in a small way to a  very dear friend from Cape Cod ‘09.  Do you remember?)

Maybe it’s a sign of survival, of anguish,
of the frightening realization that mortality does exist in the deepest recesses of the mind.
Maybe it’s a sign that everything is still changing,
still in that near frozen state of flux . . .
For him, for me, for the four walls that still imprison him,
for a world that looks [...]

Gethsemane

Posted: 16th November 2009 by ~m in Forever, God, Life, Personal, Poetry, Sad, Time, Truth, blood, dancing, dark, questions
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Deep inside this garden of souls lies the bones of a lifetime drowning in half-truths,
Of long and slowly forgotten days that were sadly beyond repair,
Of nights not unlike the darkest side of the moon
A few insignificant touches of the brush would be all that it took,
to make life go on as she thought that it [...]

Pamela-
I’ve always dreamed of singing this song for you.
In my heart, I know that I have, maybe someday I actually will.
It’s everything I’ve always wanted to say to the only person in the world that I could ever say it to.
Our love is a slow, sweet dance . . .
Happy Anniversary, my Pamela
(put on the [...]