Ignored

A Poem

Altered into representation then left far behind made into the complete picture then given a home in a dusty book turned into some promises a century, two down away there thinking history is just dogging us for change for a chance to repent and not continue to be consigned to dark holes and bitter curses alone at the bar and taking on transformation as the present you can live with turning lights on the disasters so they move into shadows playing the games for forgiveness for a different fucking glass and smacking the canvas off the wall in a fit just to begin charting inner courses relieved in the face of the naked or resistant and becoming tiny holding heavy baggage as if it only belongs to you trying to conserve yourself to say that this isn’t only hate or to stop ignoring what it is that happens when you slip down these stairs where you reach for the very end of the rope willing it to come your way return dancing to that bar finding the beautiful and putting on clothes like you can be seen clear through

J.D. Harms 2020