🚀 go-pugleaf

On Monday, 8 August 2022 at 20:03:50 UTC-4, blackpo...@aol.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 2:03:48 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Start posting:
> One Inch
>
> Was it bitter whiskey or self-pity
> that opened your legs and closed your heart,
> signing papers to dissolve your association
> with a night's folly, then shoved under the pile
> of loathing not only one life, but mine.
>
> Now I write with letters you wrote,
> though not in disgust but compassion,
> for I am unable to reach the dark ghosts
> uninvited to your daily fears, only you
> knew the totality of pain leaving me an inch
> of rational vision and that vision
> has only regrets you couldn't see me grow
> into what you longed to be.
>
> Should I have known you? Perhaps not.
> Your silent screams are far removed
> from my shouted joy,
> but I thank you nonetheless,
> it would have been so easy to lift the lid
> and toss my being as trash,
> but you didn't do that which tells me
> there was a flicker of good mixed into
> the contorted vision of your anguish.
>
> Edward Rochester Esq.