Monday, October 2, 2023

oil paint and water colors

Grasping last night's dream
like grasping straws, trapping
curling smoke in air with a net,
I get only flashes. There was you 
and me. Now, though we didn't 
speak for a decade. The silence 
was like us. Me, oil paint, thick
and heavy-handed. You, water paints,
delicate and difficult. The same, we.

How does one explain a decade
in a dream, describe a lifetime 
of choices that sum up to - 
I was wrong. I was confused.
I still am. In one toss, one turn,
one fleeting dark night?

We are just oil and water,
and I am a restless sleeper.

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