You Deserve Softness

ages 7-12: be an ‘old soul’

ages 12-16: allow the darkness to consume you

ages 16-19: be a kid for the first time ever

ages 19-30: develop dad lore

ages 30-35: court a beautiful lady

ages 35-40: get married, start a family

ages 40-55: promise to clean out the gutters and never do it again

ages 55-60: allow the darkness to consume you once more

ages 60-75: swinger cruises with your beautiful wife

ages 75-86: be an eccentric grandfather

I’m addicted to ignoring these alarms

Through the calm arms and grasp of comfort

Coming from a lie, its chimes and charms

Imaginary head, so long and so forth

I remember now for the nth time

This pop of a bottle cap flying

Piling up this little dune of metal waste

On the floor

Uncleaned, dirtied up

No one asked me why am here just now,

At 10 pm

The door slammed shut and TV is switched on

To the news of some angry man

The tin roof shakes my head

Like they’re cymbals and the rain was jazz

Through it all, the dirt outside

Shakes a bit to the sound of sirens

The sky will clear, I say

A human cant simply keep up with every second

Much less with every third place in the podium

It slips by slowly, like the modicum value of quarter

With that amount of money you cant even buy

A fifth

Of a song

By now

Still, i got a sixth sense for this and that

For whenever we commit the seventh deadly sin

Its been left to us to be the eighth world wonder

By vehemently saving every kittens fragile ninth life

All that said, you are better off ignoring this

You havent even seen

A tenth

Of myself