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Monday, July 23, 2012

Pine Box





Sleeping in a pine box
thinking about the other day
sleeping in a pine box
dreaming that this time
it’ll all turn out some other way

It’s sad how fast we deteriorate
breaking free, rotting unto the lost domains
unprepared for what will be claimed
we grow resigned in the mannerisms of loneliness and loss
where stagnating shards fragment and shape our future plots

Sleeping in a pine box
thinking about the others
sleeping in a pine box
all the father’s, daughters, sons and mothers

It’s amazing how things often come down
to the number of correct decisions we make,
the one’s we never would have made
if not for one mistake, often an accidental turn
we, at the time, deemed to be entirely incorrect

And we never would have had the opportunities
to live and to love, to bleed and to sweat
all those intangible emotions that
would not be available now, or
would not be available in the innumerable futures yet to come

But the erroneous turn we did commit
and the flaw will forever be remembered
when necessary, for sensorial exhumation

Sleeping in a pine box
thinking about the other day
sleeping in a pine box
eyes closed yet open, wide as they’ve ever stayed

And in these containers
we hold our cherished mistakes
as one would keepsake any artifact
that holds close the unmeasured meanings
ever available for conjuring crucial memories lost but never forgotten…in a pine box