These things

The comfort of the other's words. The knowledge that emotions and thoughts run their course and sometimes reach our own stream. At a loss for words and yet drowning in them. And then… And then I want to write again.

These Things
by Charles Bukowski

these things that we support most well
have nothing to do with up,
and we do with them
out of boredom or fear or money
or cracked intelligence;
our circle and our candle of light
being small,
so small we cannot bear it,
we heave out with Idea
and lose the Center:
all wax without the wick,
and we see names that once meant
wisdom,
like signs into ghost towns,
and only the graves are real.

 

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