Thursday, July 29, 2010

"But what does it mean to regret, when you have no choice?"

This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you, life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children might live"-Deuteronomy 30-19


Standing always, 3:08
In the patio
Never a chair
A bank not even
Next to intoxicated
Chilled to the bones
A shivering leg
Always the red tiles
The endless yellowing light
Trust of the night
A truce, with the time
Praying for daytime
Never to arise
Frozen slumber
Cigarette butts
Waters turning around
One by one
In bricks
Emptying out the ocean
Until heavens
Will fall to the sand

"It would be wonderful, to say you regret it
It would be easy, to regret
But what does it mean to regret, when you have no choice?
It's what you can bear
It was death
I chose life"

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