when you live in rooms
where shoestrings dangle
tripping you up in the race
to get in to get out to get
where windows stay broken
even though they painted shut
the rats always return
four and two legged
you get tired the water
says don’t get weary
tired is a coat we
can set aside to find
joy in random beauty
amaryllis through broken
windows in brick houses
like brick house women
with forever tattooed in their eyes
still beautiful
like still water
dangerous
depths
dangling shoe strings
on worn out shoes
don’t signify worth
worth is defined
in floating with your eyes open
seeing knowing and going on
floating back on the water
face to the heavens
is that all you got
resolve
the sun is gonna rise
why not be the tide
sometimes it’s got to be right
cause it can’t be wrong all the time
dangling shoe strings on worn shoes
cars that don’t go in reverse
dreams in boxes
delivered broken
missing parts without batteries
deep water blues
sing loudly in brash defiance
you will not kill me today
laid my troubles on the water
watched them sink
as the sun rose
walked into the water
walked out clean
YES! OOH YES! CLEAN AS A CLEAR WHISTLE! THANK YOU…
Great Poem, Ayo. Write on!
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