guilt
i know how guilt feels and tastes in me
the dust and ashes of responsibility
and the bad, surviving the dead and dying
and the knowing emptiness within,
the guilt of all this non-being
and yet i accept crime and license,
they are nothing, and heaven above us
is their absence, guilts and responsibilities
for trivialities - they sleep in this night
inside, they do not dream.
but guilt, guilt is the fingers of children,
the armoured breath and outrageous
health, life that lives itself just to spite
the timeless death, guilt is the living
and a dress rehearsal for all the dying
guilt is time and every other lie,
it is childish and i am a child
3 prayers for a small world
the world is out
to bastardize my
most private
vaults;
so I empty them
daily and pray
straight into
their absence.
-
to fit inside
myself I rip
my collar
of bearings
like the flesh
of a sad
chameleon;
I allow that
I'm occasional
at best.
-
I throw my
closest regrets
into a half
grave of
retreat and
servitude.
