Tuesday 1:00am

Street walking poems
chalk words on broken sidewalks
author unknown
Can I read while I’m daydreaming my life away?

Midnight sleeping poems
pretending to be deep and godly
in the midst of human angst
Should I acknowledge the suffering of people
and animals I don’t know?

Going nowhere poems
written by a going nowhere woman
watching years die in the aftermath of breathing
Is there a reason we exist in a confounding world
smashed between beauty and pain?

Gift-wrapped poems
to be opened when all is gone
and there is only silence
Will the poet live on?

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