Take leave, or shut yourself in

Avoid eye contact 
They stay glued now
Can't offer more 
Less than back then.

Cannot offer
Don't melt, don't routine this.
Stay out of touch, get on with life.
I'm not right or honest.

Grudge holding
Watch them step down
Because I get ahead
I step up 

Cannot offer
Unglue if possible
Take leave
The way I was forced to

Avoid eye contact
Zero intimacy
Faithless walk off
Seal up and hightail it

Or surrender it all
Take your pill
shut yourself in
An orphan in a shack
Outside violent fucking hurricanes

Betting on the underdogs

 I wake in the afternoon
Green cape
The goal
The net

I sleep at night
The kicks
The dribbles
I wake to the whistle

But I doze off again
The grass inside my ear
The noise of the stadium
Put me into REM sleep

I wake as the lights go out
watch the seats empty
Their over eager celebrations
Dying down with the exhaustion of the players

A muse no longer

 I used to be obsessed with her
The many pretty characteristics were
Though it's been such a long while
she was the color and the smile
How her image glowed in us
How I fantasized future promise

I couldn't bring her closer to me
And How I fussed, how i freaked
And now the inversion is happening
She loses herself in the years and dust
She was the reservoir of potent lust

Now I seek ones who always want more
Power reflects off these ones I adore
The ones I once thought, so very dear
let themselves go, no longer care

No longer spin the dreams at night
Or watch their figure out of pride

But then I should have never expected them
To boost creativity or be more than pretend
When I pushed too far they refused me
Why bother in life if you hate improving
They played games, but only changed in mood

There is no end to this at any rate
Where you stop is where you degenerate
So don't blame God, or the way I look now.
It's not time to give up, but you've thrown in the towel.

Gun grease adrenaline

 I squat to pick the up the heavy machine gun.
The gun weighs me down as I run toward the dug out.
I grab my small spade and dig into the clay between the trees.
I deepen the dug out by a full foot before I hear a zippo flick open.

A colleague lights his cigarette from behind a nearby oak root.
Just sticking out enough to get a bullet in him.
If I pointed that out it would be the fifth tiome today.
So he'd play fate, but I would only ever play it safe.

Two of ours pull an injured man out of the ravine.
Dragging him passed us the injured man heaves in pain.
The crack of rifle fire gets closer and closer.
I click the belt into place and imagine the killing to come. 

A homeless haircut life

 The homeless young man pushed his cart a long.
Half full of the things he had picked up along the way.
He skipped gleefully and reached the sidewalk.
The smile exposing his inner self.

His haircut was patchy.
The life he lived was much like that haircut.
some of it was bare and exposed.
Other parts were bushy and overgrown.

There was a happy soul in this man.
Not a bitter one.
I offered him an ongoing blessing.
One from a wish I had that he would live.

That he would continue.
Despite his rough streetness.
That he would find food and shelter.
Remain happy go lucky.

The flourishing junky

 The lit cigarette drooped from his lips.
He said good afternoon but it was still morning.
I read his eyes and they told me he was dismal.
He stared into me.

I stared into him.
There was something he wanted,
but nothing I could give him.
He was scared and down.

Under the thick heavy shade of the mahogany trees.
He sucked a drag and guilt slipped out with the smoke.
He tried to keep his feet aligned in steps along the sidewalk.
He turned on his little boom box and sung a long.

I dug the garden as he passed by.
whatever drug he was using dimming him fully.

She reads into me

 She reads into deeply, considering just what kind of creature I am.
She is half sure but still making up her mind.
Oh to be dreamed about,
Oh that my words would have any weight outside of my imagination!

The further in she goes the stranger yet brighter her world becomes.
I will not pollute it with these thick veins that pump skeptical blood.

Flow of ideas, care and surreal excursion.
Junctions, there are many hidden paths.
Insist on going deeper where the child me is found.

Godlike and peaceful unaffected by chaos of others.
Unlike the man who stands before you affected and mediocre.

Back lawn January morning 81 replaying every hour.
Touching the garden and pretending to bless it with his finger.
Come deeper he ushers and the lilacs flower purple and fragrant.

The begonia dream and personal magic have enchanted the day.
He is me even now, I am still back there in that Waikanae garden.

Or the hemi matenga hills where I would often roam all alone.
Something strange unidentifiable inside the forests.
Something that thought me prey, saw me, then ran away.

Hours alone, Inside the lost reservoir lake.
Where giant eels would sniff me like dogs.
What creature am I?

Am I the nameless wanderer in the dreamlike forest?
The oversized eel with thick veins pumping curious blood...
Am I the ghost of a dead hero seeking sweetness in a garden?
Read into this creature I am.
Go deeper, go deeper i am not one single layer

Where does my dominion end?
My physical form?
My imagination?