looking both ways

if your only defense

is that it meant nothing

you show you do not care again

for it left me defenseless

by meaning too much

*

there is no way forward

i say

how could there be no way

she says

because there is no way backwards

i reply

wishing to recollect the words

that are broken but breathing

*

i was sprung in love

now i am coiled in it

and soon

will recoil back to the ground

full of dirt and lies and

flowers that faded away

from us

for the light

always the light

that may be tyranny

showing not what can be seen

but what can’t be unseen

*

writing is capable of saving us

from all things

that were written down to be saved

from us and our incapabilities