Betrayal forgot to consider you
bowled over you in negligence
internalized as intention
an excuse for revenge.
Show the wall you are to supplement,
unwell until the next compliment.
Lists stretch into the distance
leading to follow endless tasks,
yet some introduced a skew
that knocked off whack
the magnet that mattered to most.
A mainstay in the vacuum retreat
of bickering order,
equalized with machines
until they became reliant.
Life plays out as stages
not the calendar forcing generations,
but blocks sorted by places and associations,
schools and relations,
trends and habits that sometimes lag
and sometimes leap above others.
We count experience by achievements
while the calendar flips at firsts and lasts.
Convene to collect the next promise
and set wishes aloft on courage.
Greet and recall the gaffs
and not the courses abandoned,
because today’s inspiration
returns your interpretation,
shedding care in consternation
to those who never paid attention.
Patience bleeds,
ink pens,
all over the keys.
That’s how it ends.
