We Were Friends Once

We've walked our separate ways
For miles upon miles
And in the blackest haze
Called out beneath the Nile
But none of us could hear
The ghastly sound of fate
Where one who's never near
Could breed between us hate
This anxious, knotted gut
Knows nothing of your scorn
But feels the deepest rut
Of emotions that are worn
An indescribable fury
From your end of the stick
However never worried
It doesn't make me sick.

-3/22/11

Would You?

You're everywhere
Like the risk I couldn't take
The poison I can't shake
Pulsing through my brain
It's getting harder to abstain
From keeping you in line
When time really isn't mine
To change in the first place.
Everything I've known
About this distant, quaking drone
This collapsible, unmappable
Art of feeling fine
Though on the inside it's like dying
A second time.
Would it be too crazy
To think that possibly, maybe
We could see eye to eye?
You wouldn't think that I
Was as out of my mind as I say
Or would you walk away?
And let the poison sink
Into my bones that couldn't weep...
Would you?

-Written 3/19/11