Climbing the Heights

Sunday, February 23, 2014

The me beside myself

The me beside myself
When I am no more 
Well aware
That someone's there

And if I even care 
My thoughts it seems
Turn inward
Playing my own

Disception of what
I thought should be
Yet all the while
Complacency

Takes residency here
And I am once more
Subdued in idle
Thinking

Where did I once
Know the words to speak
To say the things I feel
How can I connect again

Even when it hurts
To say what in me
Must be said
To live the life
That's all but dead

Still surfacing
In silence
The cursing
Deep within

Why this
Why am I here
What do you expect 
Of me

We may not see
The same defect
Infect our minds
With our own

Wreck in me
The rotting waste
Whose taste is for
Itself 

Open me 
To clearly see
The hurt in
Someone else

And not
Defend
My own
Disdain

But work
To make
Amends

For only there
Can love connect 
And hope beyond
Perfect

The broken
With the broken
Heart and make 
The broken whole

-Joshua Lee Foist

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