Cold Bitter Embrace

Told you funny jokes till you laughed and you forgot why you hated me

In your very last breaths would you ever forget why you did?

Would you ever remember why I did or come solely to read it in the Sunday paper with eyes wide shut?

Curiosity couldn’t let sleeping dogs lie

An unanswered question told everything of our newfound world

Got you to nirvana after all those months

Could the ego of the Gods ever recover

Your personal Jesus with an electric Savior Complex to batter and crucify

Awaiting trial eternally from the Morning Star

Funny when you’re high

Loving when you’re drunk

The best at your worst

Met me by the rectories atrium at 6:00 PM

Absolution of our sins

Patron saint of the former derelict alcoholics

Seventeen year old swan songs

Your last minute plea call from the dormitory down South

How it broke night as the landline rang twice

Perpetual existence in the life once lived in the town house outside of Worcester

In-discretionary talks on the fire escape

Jesus of the new age

Modern Day Messiah

Martyr for your sins

Would you ever falter from your post at the mortuary stand?

Could you ever?

Do you ever?