Walk of Shame

Walk of Shame

I watch the naked truth lying

Shamefully beside me

Under ripped and ravaged

Linens as the cold light of day

Splinters harshly across my bruised

And claw-marked flesh; a reminder

Of our foggy misadventures.

Smiling, I drop a thick wad of green

Upon the bedside table;

“That was one for the ages…”

I whisper as I unceremoniously

Slink out the door...

30 Day Poetry Challenge - Day Twenty Two

Day Twenty Two - “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” –Hemingway. Write a short poem that is also “truest sentence that you know.”


One Truth to Rule Them All…

In thirty two years,
I have peered microscopically
At our blue, purposefully-whirling orb
And a thrilling spasm
Of realization
Splashed over me like an icy wave;
What I know of the universe
Won’t fill the eye
Of a needle.