Breath

Breath

It’s late and I’m still up,

I’m thinking about everything and I’m not sure of anything.

I do not live in this world of dreams, I live in the world of wakefulness.

When I sleep I struggle with the laws of nature because I am asleep.

Upon awakening I am resuscitated and I breathe again this full life.

There is no better taste than the one that accompanies the air I breathe.

I seem to speak of breath often

I seem to breathe often

It is the only thing I really care about.

JKF

2/27/16

Reckoning

I am lost in translation from a boy to a man

My dad has left the building and I’m trying to fill in

Don’t recommend this to the faint of heart

It’s just a little reckoning and I’m dead from the start

Peace be with you, and also with you

I haven’t a clue where all that peace went

Try to envision the lack of neglect

Try to imprison the face and the neck

I just don’t have it, the thing I once had

I can even remember what it felt like, it must have been bad

I wished for its ease and discovered the magic

Of wishing and getting your wish to come true

Reckoning the distance that my hand has to travel from navel to brain and back to the gavel

Life isn’t fair to the man who is aged and life doesn’t care about the child who had died

Peace on your asshole and let go of the life

It’s not automatic and might end this very night

Get what you can when the desire is present

When that shit is gone you won’t know what hit you

This is your warning, I didn’t get mine

This is your warning one very last time

JKF

2/20/16

Shaken

I am shaken by your power

I am rattled by your breath

I have slipped into another realm

Of life and pain and sin

And still I tremble

With bodies hidden and voices pure you rendered my mouth dry

From the laughter through the closing cries

In one second I was transported to another land and time

I cannot know if pain or joy was burning in my eye

In an hour my soul had been removed and another took my hand

Your bodies moved me, your voices touched me

The pain you lived was mine

I want to crawl with you and sing with you and throw my life away

So fierce was your loyalty to each other and yourselves

I was moved

And still I tremble 

JKF 2/19/16

Sweet Dreams

Long…slow…the breath

The searing summer night

Warm as the roll of a special love

Crazed beyond

                             Comprehension

I drift        to      you

It’s hot enough to melt the clouds

They drip to the grass and smolder

Imagination sparked,             I float away

Chasing your scent, I seek…the heat

It’s a hot charcoal flame that darkens my conscience

I feel your touch and I know I’m close

                                     The warmth tells me

I’ve made it. I harness you and hold on tight

You rock me into space…

I come to and realize I’ve been dreaming

You’re not with me and            I’m insane

JKF

2/5/16

Shroud

I like thunder

and

rain

I feel comfy

with

pain

I like lightening

and

fire

How it sparks my

De

sire

Home is safety

and

calm

Where the heart feels

its

balm

Like a house mouse

in

hole

I peer out from

my

soul

JKF

2/2/16

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