Kurt Philip Behm Poet Free verse

Memories Of The Houseboat On Your Birthday Again This Year

Trying 
to retrieve
the things
you threw off
the boat
before they
sink
and with them
my legacy

They drift
in the 
saturation
of what never
should have
been said
and never 
should have
been thought

I
fall into
the dark
water
where our
past
spawns in anger
treading
in desperation

Hoping
for a 
last reprieve
still floating
on the
surface
of what 
never really was

— and never will be again


(Dreamsleep: August, 2026)

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