Day

One day I wont be able to reach you So while you sleep I’ll outline your body with chalk Sit in the dusty pieces, Erasing your past. Digest In the belly of a system designed to Make amends, I re-member Your face Like an old lovers Tracing your words like A child’s homework We were raised in the two blocks a part Down the middle like the sea Open windows let you slip into a mumbling slumber Forget this intrusion I’ll deliberate your fate Make you run races For traces Of your manhood found “luck” Locked in between Insecurities thighs You’ll plant seeds in juvenile ideas Raise forget- me- nots Forgot to water them You are merely I man without a plan A boy playing in the sand Hoping someone will show you… your purpose Is it appropriate to mourn the living? Purposely forgotten Raised a toast to your failures Drank your insecurities like chasers Never mentioned success For Fear failure might hear I watch a man Never supporting a foundation Watery dreams wipe away unstable pavements Ghetto sidewalks Cripple steady straight passages to safety Safely landing him in harms way He didn’t want a life when grown men told him secrets behind closed doors, Forced him to swallow their nightmares and regurgitate behavior in the pit of a woman’s stomach. Speech lost in alphabets Bet he could rise above the jokes of a fuck-ups lullaby Believes his ending lies in the ends he can never make meet Doesn’t place bets monogamy Only losers have faith Faithfully he will do what comes naturally Nurtured only in the rules of a clean house So his home is built without walls Without floors So his security is faulty Flawless in his unforgettable moments Of motionless Memories Man Shoes too big Responsibilities to wide Opportunities to narrow So now He waits Stumbling toward option behind door number What kind of man am I? Where am I headed? When does it all end? I’m not sure I’m only the friend Wiping sweat off your brow, giving you a sip of water, spreading grease on your face and telling you “Keep low, keeping moving, keep low, keep moving, keep low, keep moving….