KEY

KEY

Hey! No trespassing

Do not assume
you have
            right
of way

automatic forgiveness

can fiddle around
in my innermost particles
until
   blue in the face

no, not
on my watch
not on my watch

but hey,
     hang on a momento
you say
    brought a key
came with  master
opens
    everything

can unlock things here
that I
    have grown immune to
that I am totally unaware of

will take me magic carpet
ride mind
to a
   special place

down a
hidden passageway
been bolted since childhood

which is, I do
freely admit
     a very long time

this shifts
       things a bit

or
  to be gracious, shifts
everything considerably

kind of
     alters my perspective
go
full
  Omar Khayyam

trespassing
        no trespassing

what’s
mine
     is yours

and yours
is mine

on
my watch
automatic forgiveness
forever
     and this night

A WORD

A WORD

forgiveness:
now there’s a word

the dead
   do not forgive

cannot
forgive

memory is frozen
in that cold posture

in time
     with time

the living
might forgive

but the maimed and
mutilated

theirs’ is a horror
beyond speech