Saturday, March 30, 2013

Key is to cast

nameless keys jingle
in the leather coat pocket

rusty, dingy cogs of a collapsed contraption

reminders of lapsed love, letting loose...

lessons learned

they are tomorrow's mail,
a forgotten token
to send to once kind thoughts,
now doubting disappointment

that Thomas won't
touch this blood
that has flowed
far from its origin

its life is new,
refusing to look back...

refusing to make the same mistakes

it caught the flight
to the distant horizon
with sunflower seed hitchhikers
dropped in its luggage
by its guiding hands

the tag-alongs of promise
tell of days to come

of days cherished
and savored

of days bleeding
from stomach, chest, and eyes

wanted tones drive those devils
to their earthly beds
that no priest could cast out

just as the postman
will cast the dingy cogs
to a past hell, relieving
the leather coat of its heavy burden

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