Tuesday, July 25, 2017

The Companion's Promise

First draft written on 9/2/17

 The Companion's Promise
 

It's a grim path out there, a windowless wood
pockmarked with black-top and the emotions

tend to drain like ocean tides and swell
like tornadoes all while showing up to work

on time and cleaning another dish
and lava cracks the earth and Satan

offers me another kingdom. The fluffy
fortress of my bed envelopes me,

a chance to rewrite my coming story
my companion disfigured his body

on inflammation overload, takes my hand
his pockmarked, bloodied hand and gently

tugs me to my feet to my path;
he is not writing a tragedy.

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