Resistance

Stubborn body obstinate soul
What happens when we don’t
Want to budge are we resisting
Or listening to our best selves
Frozen feet no need to meet
Someone in a rendezvous
If the destination doesn’t appeal
What’s the point of showing up
For bad dough when there’s
Delicious bread to be had
In some other place on some
Other occasion in the listless abyss

Phones ringing should be unplugged
Or at least turned down so that the
Sound isn’t trying to bait us over and out
Who’s calling? I don’t remember
Making a phone date or even
Giving out my number huh?
Someone has it but when did they get it?
Funny how they always find you…

One might think the goal was isolation
When really the concept is a peaceful moment
He wasn’t trying to get away from humanity
Only to break free from the reality
That there was nowhere to go where
Someone wasn’t anymore
That’s what they said without saying
Anything at all and the tender thing was
Always waiting for the best one
Even though there was no regard for
His feelings before or after
We didn’t have to drag it out thankfully
The right one comes along when it does
Something about letting sleeping dogs lie

© GÄ

Combat

All the things I’m in my head about
All the things I shouldn’t care about
Do the little things begin to weigh in
Because I don’t feel like I can meet
The expectations of everyone

Around me taking down me in minute
Details that bleed onto the scope
Of things and we are allowed to
Have bad days but some of them
Creep into the next morning
Thinking about the residuals of
Yesterday as we push them behind us

Eminently struggling to cling on
Does it make us stronger or weaker?
Empathically I feel the stress of
Others pulling and tugging away at my
Everything I have to block it out

Send it away like a package
I don’t want or a letter that’s been
Misdelivered to an address
That no longer exists it is the
Unhinged emotions of blatant
People around me that are
Inconsiderate in how they persist

It all compounds me into a heap
Of how do I get away from
All of this mess but it is a
Question of life that is part of
Being alive and other than
Selling everything and buying a
Ticket for a one way trip
To live remotely somewhere
This place doesn’t exist on the planet

We are vulnerable and
Unprotected as sensitives
Putting on the alligator suit again
Back to life and bumper cars
One day at a time resistance
One breath at a time to find
The joy in a reasoning to live

© GÄ