Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Detente

You’ve got to be kidding
One more time
The perfunctory olive branch

It would be easier to breathe
While choking on a knotted, grease
Soaked dish rag than to say the words

Another emotionally charged
Stand-off, we’re both right,
Just ask, either of us

Fools or sadists
We dance again on bruised
And bloodied toes

Trying exhausts
Any change seems
A vapor arriving too late

Extending the inevitable
Last gasp, maybe, clinging
To fading shreds of hope

4 comments:

  1. Whoa. This is so wonderfully raw and honest.

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  2. The perfunctory olive branch

    It would be easier to breathe
    While choking on a knotted, grease
    Oh yes, been there. And this captures it so, so well.

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  3. Thanks, Jim. And I'll be featuring that snippet about the olive branch. :)

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  4. love the image of the need to be right - the choking on words, the choking on the fact one maybe wrong ---- I always love the name of of site "The Faithful Skeptic"

    blessings

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