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On Sunset’s Doorstep

“struggle”


I can weave your pain into vines of pills,
but it will tumble you into a numb slumber
on the Sunday sloping downward to melancholy,
like the meager pinecones that drop effortlessly.

 

I can show you more than chemical collapse,
so you can sharpen the eager daylight
-slipping upward through branches beyond
into the rainbows of an uncaptured nature.

 

Let loose your hand from the door
and walk with your heart ahead,
to the sightless brush
that paints us in our lost element.