Dark Poetry Prose Poetry January 15, 2005 Dark Poetic Prose

01-15-05 10:27pm saturday

didn't you know it. outrage grows in your chest like nicotine. cancer spreads.

isn't it just so typical of life.

older you are. older it gets.

hearts like steeples rise from the earth beneath. reaching for stars they can never hope to reach.

thought i'd done right, but untrue.

time rolls like thunder. so loud. and powerful.

from so high up in the sky it shakes the ground.

i've been told i'd be better if. but it's hard to listen then.

with nothing left to want. and so much that i should. it just seems pointless to try.

leave it alone. let it lay. like tall grass uncut in the abandoned backyards of yesterday.

let it grow tall as it can.

let it feel the strength you'll never have.