don't save anything for after a waist measurement

Every boy I've ever daydreamed about

was a "twenty pounds later" maybe

she was so damn cute at 16

she being me

I wish she had said something 

and made me

one broken heart richer

Judas

 I have committed no crime to compare

yet still

my heart cries out to him

survive!

do not deny him once again!

live still, and 

speak his name with tenderness

christ forgave the hands and spear which pierced his side

how much more would he forgive thee!

I wish, in moments of clarity,

pleading with Judas to yet live, 

I could hear the same words

echoed back at me

Live! And yet utter his name with tenderness!

As the Lord does utter yours in heaven!

laundry

a feeling, fleeting in thought

fled from my still-beating chest 

carrying with it

wings spread wide in lofty sky, 

a momentous journey 

upon which I idly wonder 

as the ever-breathing script of life, 

follows me, step by step, 

all the while, I fold the laundry