By kevin urenda
Date: 2004 Apr 11
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[[2004.04.11.10.05.19053]]

losers

my thoughts somehow arrive at literacy
many hours after being thrown from the train
I welcome myself to the platform
because no one ever waits for me
because I carry my own baggage everywhere
because the next ride always arrives early
and my ticket to nowhere is still good

as I was walking along those tracks
I had plenty of time to think
I had plenty of thought to provoke just about anything
but settled instead for a search of a light in any tunnel
or simply anything that didn't reflect my own darkness to me
and it was when I began looking up at the stars
that I thought I saw the faintness
of hopes and dreams within myself
flickers of dimness in the firmament
or maybe just little white spots on a black heart

and it was around the third or fourth epiphany
I realized that I had lost
more words than the stars I couldn't even see
when I lost you

03.19.03