You are older than you used to be

Stop thinking all those thoughts about life and death;

You'll never find out why you were sent to die

  here all alone. It's pointless; just calm

    down and be blissfully dumb and carefree.

That's better. Breathe in slowly, as if it were

your very last breath. How would you feel about

  that? How would you exhale if you were

    blowing the flame of reality out?

Hold Your Breath

for Lily

 

 

 

A new day’s upon us,

and I was up all night

daydreaming about you

while sunshine lit the sky.

We lay out on a beach

amidst a turqoise sea;

we listened to waters

softly tickling our feet.

We got up for a swim

and kissed under the waves,

and coming up for air

we bumped our heads and gave

each other bruises and

headaches, and Iiii went to

the emergency room

with a bad case of the

bends, and you waited till

I could mend my broken

strength and stand up again

till you dumped me and went

on with your life without

one more thought of me or

the day i almost died,

diving to impress you.