Short Shakily Poems

I try not to crumble--
you do not see my
break
downs —
I simply
will not let you—
till somehow,
some way,
in the cracks—
unblinking insect 
eyes peep through.

They are my own eyes
and they are stunned.

The eyes speak—
shakily do they
speak:

"You are still with me
after all this time."...

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Outraged at what I saw
I covered my eyes and hardly peeked
I couldn’t believe the mess on the wall
And the way the kitchen sink had leaked

Damnnit Susie!
Damnnit Charles!
Go to your rooms,
And don’t you come back down to supper!

Removing my hand shakily
I began to clean what was in front of me
I started to get up angrily
How could my children do this to me!...

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The mirror.

Then stoicism.

Frozen and calm.

Focused.

Then moving shakily.
 
Movements, and jolting.

Then I’m focused again.

Moving.

Calm but ready movements.
 
Knocking on the door, but I don’t react.

I can no longer move.

I can blink a little bit, still. 

The mirror is blinking with me.

I am focused.

The mirror.

I am in the mirror....

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I feel it building, overwhelming,
I am a card house and there is a storm,
Refuge itches my brain, begging for attention,

I can’t ignore it,
It is my oldest friend,
Always there in my time of weakness,

My skin welcomes it,
It’s all too familiar sting,
And the storm rushes out my body,

There is no more storm, 
No more acid in my veins,
I admire the carnage,

Rain is still pelting down but the card house shakily stands....

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At Life’s Early Phase,
Your feet on trembling base,
It is Evil that pays
And its music that plays …

At life’s Incipient Stage,
When one isn’t of Age,
Vice A Thousand Kilos weighs
Not what The Bishop says …

And at vice Youths intently gaze,
Not at Virtues’ Sublime Rays;
Wrongs rejecting with “Sickly Nays”;
Not much from Life-Changing Sundays!

The whole picture asserts ‘A Craze’,
In sincere circles denied a half praise …

It is in youths habitual  
To be shakily spiritual....

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