by Danilo Lopez

Created on: February 01, 2009

Afternoon

I am better off like this

in my hill I feel secure

without anxieties without disturbances

almost happy and almost sad

almost loved and almost alive

you tell me with reason I am almost a man

at my age I am a person of averages

calms and circumstances

thank you for the happiness you offered

and I almost enjoyed

thank you for the energy that amazed me

and I almost tasted

thank you for your concern, inspiration and care

I almost appreciated

five, ten or twenty years from now

I will not remember you but full, whole

solid

the grace of my imagination paired with the

force of your present

will make me feel completely this love

together we knew, developed, and enjoyed

almost

- - -

Out of the Doldrums

"in a dark time, the eye begins to see"

Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time"

and I don't know what

came first-

my boredom looking

at her body, or my

hatred feeling her words-

but when the time

came to leave, my eyes

were dry, awakened, and

in a last spasm

these legs were able

to rise and walk

the telephone kept on

ringing behind me

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