Love’s a terrible thing
when you’ve been reduced to a scheduling item –
the emotional equivalent of a lamppost,
lovely and terribly convenient to have around,
but not exactly a high emotional investment.
Sometimes you don’t even notice
when the bulb’s gone out.
And then the stretch of putting it off and putting it off,
always meaning to attend to the deadness in your room,
but so much a second thought
that such a nonessential scheduling item
stays dead,
for months,
until finally you know you’ll never put a bulb back
and say fuck it,
then throw it in the trash
so you can get a different, shinier lamppost.
I did not like being that scheduling item.
My bulb left broken for much too long,
even though you kept saying that one day,
things would be brighter.
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Poem: The Anger of a Lamppost
8 JulFalling Awake
28 OctA poem for this late Sunday night.
Falling Awake
You never go to bed alone,
with the whispers of your memories
sounding in your head,
keeping you awake
with the uneasy doubt
that there is something you forgot.
One flash in your brain, like lightning,
silent.
You never go to bed alone,
with all those ghosts behind your eyes.