Killing Time

Killing Time
                       Are you okay?
                       You don’t look okay!
                       It’s okay,
                       If you’re not okay.
                       Look up in wonder.
                       What matters most?
                       If it’s real, then I’ll stay.
                       Beyond a brief moment.
                       I want to help you live again.
                       But if not, I don’t mind dying
                       With you. Say something?
                       Becomes a new way,
                       To keep going.
                       And another day; 
                       We’ll be together.
                       Had I known sooner.
                       What’s with good intentions?
                       I’ve lost my front door key.
                      Now you have the other key.
                      What to leave.
                       Look, I got morning dew,
                       On my shoes.

                       These new shoes now glitter.
                       With a sparkling, wet, fresh
                       Tidy-view hopped off my 
                       Scooter, fast and free.
                      After turning a sudden, sharp,
                      Degree. Yesterday I took a fall.
                      Stumbling, scraped, and likely,
                      Yet I limped back home.
                      A little blue.
                      To make dinner just for you.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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