doggone

you will ask yourself

where everything went wrong

and i will answer

that it is the moment where

you began to ask

instead of doing something else

to make it right

*

the dog chases its own tail

and i laugh

how stupid it is not to know itself

later i limp a circle onto the end of the day

wondering what i can do next

for even the dog has stopped

*

and i asked god

why is he punishing me for my sins

and he said

the tools were worn by then

and i said

but you made two of me

and he said

learning how to forgive mistakes like this

would’ve lessened the punishment, certainly

and i said

okay, lord, what is the punishment

and he said

it is the fact that there is only one of you left

and i crumbled alone

for the first time since time