A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Sunday, January 29, 2023

For Jacob

I'm pretty sure that every
thing I wish
I hadn't said 

is long forgot
by every
one

I'd said it to. 

Instead,
it spikes anew 
in sour juice
and voltage 
in my mind, 

each time 
the whole damn scene 

comes back,
and 
deepening in time. 

And so we forge in life 
the chains they'll pry from 
our inert remains, 

or else they won't.

Since they can't see
what each
misstep
was meant 

to be.

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