Twenty Years

Ami said forget september,

humid hills like sunken caves;

she said to unravel every pebble i threw

off the

cliff.

A thousand battles ago a child

stood at an event horizon,

cast a shadow to a foul, frigid

eternity.

Common pain like gunpowder

fading! odd days without mom; siblings

cascade off trembling iced capped

precipice.

She stares me down a crystal brown

bottle, fizzing foamy mnemonics:

stay here, don’t look back;

stay here…

Knots shocked by demented

symphonics, caustic rain burns

her prancing iris- expanding

evergreen.

To feel anything, anything at all

and cast it upon any universe

takes every liquor and brew

designed by

sickened creators.

Tap my expansive conscious,

learn of punches taken, lungs scarred,

eyes and cold days locked behind

rusting prison.

Loneliness and solitude drifting

eroding isles. I climb bladed cliffs,

fighting lowly spirits, meet my hefty

disguise.

Thunder tonight dame keep your

satin dry, gin patches your ill blush,

razor blades and bear mace for

wailing marauders.

She patted my back, said to

forget that spectral fear

hovering above my flailing

lines.

Afar in a distant hood in Houston,

Texas i was born to a rocky

marriage that left me on an edge for decades to come.