New Beginnings

Let me leave this

world and slide back

into that primordial ooze.


Experiencing that first clean

burst of consciousness

stringing its way between

synapses.

The Beginning of a Relationship

There’s a crack, a crack where

the accusations were thrown.

Hopes and expectations pinned

on a relationship flung

together with alcohol

and cigarettes. Let’s go

back he cries. Back to the

beginning. We loved each

other once. Those people

don’t exist I smile, taking

his hand, they never existed.