Less Time

By Matt Trusskey

Poems of Midlife, Memories and Letting Go

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456606848

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Midlife

You're in Midlife When

You go to the store to buy a magnifying glass

To pull a splinter out of your wife's foot, alas.

Your midday nap becomes a requirement

To watch the evening news and dream of retirement.

Your youthful thoughts and pains of the heart

Become aches of the body and joint pains smart.

Your daily desire is no longer to get laid

But to get the house note timely paid

Your current memory begins to fade in less time

And you need sticky notes to remember a rhyme.

The highlight of your day is out for dinner

To celebrate the removal of a big toe splinter.

Pirates All

Stone tavern smoky and dark

Wine and pewter cups abound

A salty mix of smells drift

Her supple ruby lips glisten

Through long curly chestnut hair

Voluptuous wild hips

Spin round and round

Soul dizzy with passion

Forgetting humanity, reality

Fevered music accentuates

My intoxication, then…

We find each other

I reach to caress and kiss

Her sweaty velvet skin

Slower, then faster she moves

Hidden passion exposed

Her hands lacing my hair

Clutching my fiery head

To her breasts

Volcanic lust compels us

Into the shadows

Then I take her

And she loves it!

If

If you heard me,

Would your ear turn silent?

Yielding to loud storms

Wind swept and violent.

If you spoke to me,

Would your tongue go dry?

Desert raindrops fall

Squeezed from life's eye.

If you touched me,

Would your fingers rot?

Touch the soiled earth

Dig a child's burial plot.

If you befriended me,

Would your soul wane?

Go ahead, try to live

For joy and for pain.

If you loved me,

Would you shut the door?

All we could have is

Much and ever more.

And if…

Aftermath and Science

Psychedelic explosions of pastel greens laced with yellow tips

dance on my eyelids in a purple sky.

Lying