Pity-Poetry

Pity-Poetry

Saturday, June 14, 2014

God, This is All

No rhymes no embellishments;
Pictures on a metal table
Do I know these people
Do I know that one 
Front and center

Red strings 
Blue veins 
In straight line directions
To each photograph 
Of everyone I once
Had

If I sit I will stay
If I wash my face with water
I will go
With a last meal of tiny
Swirls
Of tiny deli sandwiches

I pray to contradict my atheism 
For the hope that my flesh 
Doesn't too soon melt away
In short, for you;
In short, for me

Because 
Every time I see that blanket
I remember how much you loved it
And yearn that 
If I wrapped myself in it
I would be your tiny deli sandwich  

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