A Comet Appears

One hand on this wily comet

Take a drink just to give me some weight

Some uber-man I'd make

I'm barely a vapor

They shone a chlorine light on

A host of individual sins

Let's carve my aging face off

Fetch us a knife

Start with my eyes

Down so the lines

Form a grimacing smile

Close your eyes to corral a virtue

Is this fooling anyone else

Never worked so long and hard

To cement a failure

We can blow on our thumbs and posture

But the lonely are such delicate things

The wind from a wasp could blow them

Into the sea

With stones on their feet

Lost to the light and the loving we need

Still to come

The worst part and you know it

There is a numbness

In your heart and it's growing

With burnt sage and a forest of bygones

I click my heels

Get the devils in line

A list of things I could lay the blame on

Might give me a way out

But with each turn

It's this front and center

Like a dart stuck square in your eye

Every post you can hitch your faith on

Is a pie in the sky

Chock full of lies

A tool we devise

To make sinking stones fly

And still to come

The worst part and you know it

There is a numbness

In your heart and it's growing