Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Man in the Morning

7:37am

Birds sing sunrise colours

But he drinks black melancholy from his cup

Staining his tongue with the bitter of another day

He takes a drag

He looks at the rope of smoke

He watches the ants with food on their backs


7:46am

The day scratches its head

A ball with no goalpost to aim

He stops looking at the photos

Putting his wife and daughter in the carton of his heart

Rain suddenly falls

Into puddles

Into thousand broken mirrors

Of his past and dreams


8:10am

Today looks the same as yesterday

The same as tomorrow and the morrows

Sliver of his sleeves peeking out from under his coat

One thinks he pines for a second spring

He takes a drag

He looks at the rope of smoke

The rope to hang himself

 

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