projecting

grown out of
dirt and left in 

the sun's waning moments
before i let the

growing shadow
catch up to

this game of waiting

we've been playing

this whole time.

housekeeping and keeping house

 

so will you see what i told you for what it/is/for what it was/for the sake of/anyone else but/yourself/i can tell/you/i will give you some simple arithmetic/plus and/minus/i want you to know/this was never about/subtracting anything/away from our/lives/just

living through/something/oh yes/surviving the/times/i want you to/know this/is/ just/how it goes when/you commit yourself to/something larger/than/

yourself/you me them us/i could be/anything/i want to be/

everything/always/right

now/

clearinghouse house clearing

 

drops in a/bucket/lynch pin/pulled//too much of a good thing and/too much/pepper/we’ll see the limits-won’t we/dressed in the stained smocks of/inaction/in essence we are/incapacitated/not every line is a verse/not every verse is a/hymn/not any hymn is a bop//dark times/we’ll get them/just yet/soon enough/once we are called/off of the couch/no longer resting on our/laurels/the hibernation ends/when we-when we won’t/what/will/we’ll know/soon enough/