Memento Memories
Another White Christmas
coming down
hard ...
Asphalt bitter cold
Danny Boy blues ain’t o-Kaye-o
Broken glass Dean-o voice
Martini sing in absinthe stinging
d minor ~ Road to Hope got
Crossed 'B' out Bing-o
Another whiteout Christmas
Domino tears
falling
Twenty below diagonal
Unbalanced emotions,
troubled mind on a tilted spin
Numb thoughts are starting to get
that familiar frostbite —
Uncaring feeling
Another white powdery Christmas,
unhappy hollow days
Memento memories
on a black fade
Look out the cracked window
of altered perception
Let in some more extreme cold —
Insensate ‘why’
palpitations
Those pipe dreams deferred
are twenty-something empty years old
Another white listless Christmas
Living dead movements
are bipolar
North to South,
it don’t really matter
what direction the feelings go
Each zombie trip is always determined by
which way the lighter wind blow
Depression to Manic
is how the artificial happiness of sadness
get smoke misty eye
Cranial froze
Just another white Christmas crisis,
again ... this time of year
Snowflake tears are coming down
so frigid diagonal
Cryo choice of medicated sleep relief
is mood optional
Look out the cracked window,
one last time
No longer any icy isolation fear
of what somber regrets
will be left behind
Another white noise Christmas Day
growing more silent night,
with each turned calendar year
See the receding childhood smiles
empathically pass merrily by
With a blank gaze,
watch Puff the Snow Dragon fly
Good natured joy has breaking bad fled,
with rhyme or reason left stupor unsaid
Only unspeakable pain remains
Another white snow globe Christmas
So many frozen moments of better times
can’t be thawed out ~ Pristine vow decisions not
brought back
There’s only mistake-filled spilt words
bottled up somewhere
mentally downstairs
Dusty neurotic hangups
on a wine rack
Another white wailing wall Christmas
of addled thoughts
Don’t remember, can’t recall
the causal origin of the
emotional crack
As those memento memories,
now permanently,
Fade to black
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2019
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