Adhesive Hearts
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Adhesive hearts
Outstretched to meet
The forming of the day;
Peel our stories
Page by page,
Cast to vacuums
Sucking all we say.
Replacing choice
With fear,
Replacing youth
With age.
We live beneath
The chiclets now,
Where juices
Form conclusions
Of their own.
It is here
We all write
Different verses
Of the same poem
Wearing our time
As frazzled garments
Worn out
Quickly, ending us:
Winos burping
All we own
Hollow logs
Rolling down a hill
With no control.
What separates us
From our dream,
A many colored rain
That we call love.
I have no eye
Of Rembrandt
For your
Jangling bracelets’
Twinkling;
Within this time,
Before adhesive hearts
Can learn to fly.
Copyright © Vernon Witmer | Year Posted 2021
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