What Life We Had Left
her iris was hazel like mine and she enjoyed dancing for everyone on the kitchen floor in between her drinks
and the people would come after their shifts because my refrigerator was always stocked and the entertainment always lasted until the moon drifted across the sky
the dealers the gamblers the players the moonrakers the shy the beautiful the ugly the germs and the pure came in droves it was a good mixture
at the beginning of each morning hazel eyes and i would saunter down the hall into my bed to give what life we had left in us to each other
that was years ago
and now the people don’t come around the lights and music have dimmed there are no bare feet to glide across the kitchen tiles
all that remains are the memories
which is best i think
better to dwell upon the nights the mornings the life i gave up
with the hazel eyed muse
