bad memories:

scared, alone, anxious
possibility: illness

reach out
return:
don't call, i'm at work

blatant memory:
standing four feet away
from where you should have been
place empty
but full of lies.

ellipsis vs. period, part II

period:
an era
a full stop
a time

ellipsis:
continuation
something left unsaid
story unfinished

fight between period
(situation)
and ellipsis
(me)

i: i will always continue
to move forward
even in the moment
of important things
left unsaid

situation:
read through the lines
mind hoping,
grasping
for something that is not there

lie:
two steps back
situation revealed
blinders removed
projecting guilt
i step back

three steps
four steps
door is closing

ellipsis vs period

sentences:

one ending in periods

the other

infinitely in ellipses

one: ending

the other: beginning

destiny carried

on the shoulders

of three tiny dots

where do i begin

and where do i end?

somewhere between

fingers tracing the curves of letters,

making sense 

of cryptic messages

smoke signals,

hay stacks,

morse code,

hieroglyphics:

spending moments

working out the discrepancies

between reality

and a beautiful lie.