A modern day Romeo and Juliet <br />make unfulfilled promises with <br />dead kisses and blunted words. <br />Their arched backs thrust towards <br />the sky. They laugh in silence, and <br />smile through each other eyes. <br /> <br />Behind them on a battered bench <br />two skin headed men agitated and <br />instant, conceal their insecurites with <br />hard glances and forced frowns. <br />I see them when they are alone <br />they shit and cry like you and I. <br /> <br />Beneath me, An old man smiles <br />a toothless black hole of a smile <br />his white legs are lined with blue <br />rippling rivers signifing his end <br />I am not fooled by his fragility <br />A tatoo streching with the years invites <br />me to read his past. <br /> <br />The streets reveal the crimes <br />of the drunken, blood runs down <br />minature mountians. I saw it in the paper too. <br />The witness's in all their cemented stability <br />confess with differing looks. <br />Even dusy windows are transparent. <br />We, the walking wounded plead on sore knees <br />I see them all, Their eyes are as absorbant <br />of those of a child<br /><br />Not Long Left<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-little-distant-yet-fully-aware/
