Sailing Without Gravity

abre los ojos-
to thousands of micro molecules,
Millions of miles.

Memories of friendship
we download, stored conveniently
into MS-Word files.

Nostalgia, footprints of conquest-
twins of humor,
middle school jerks
yet your entire worth
Centers on 'me first'.
The only heart you ever possessed
was sketched on a T-Shirt.

Friends?
No.
Maybe yes,
used to be best- now formal at best, former.

Family never again, only a boarder and a dormer.
Lie dormant with your morals
That lack of standards you possess- keep it close to your chest
May have to use it as protective vest
someday-so put it to rest.
Keep bullets apart from vertebrae,
only support given in the fray
Was moral, now with no regard for importance of reality's sway.

Not an ally,
can't be rival
I see you only as child
Ripe with denial.
Find the horizon, time expiring
note the line on the Sun dial.

Climb to the sky, yet you've been blind for too long.
The swan song of once a sunburst
Has found you awash in the shores, calm.

The corpse of a friend- bones of a brother...
To cut off what's been holding me down- we needn't recover.
Anchor severed from this 'friend'ship-
his only aim was to drag me under.







(c)Paul LaTorre 2009