Nightlife: Wait Outside

She knows the frosty temperature

But to her it’s all the same

Come a year from now the wind’s still blowin’

And Outside it’s cold again

inside the christmas card smiles

And facebook’s “my Kid got this awarD”

Outside Loneliness is a virtue

That inside perpetually ignores

Your eyes dare naught ever meet

Through the Dirtied window pane

Even though your soul sees into Hers

When inside’s Silence dissolves hearts’ stain

What was it He said to us?

Something about frozen ground swell…

And neighbors?

Something about the Cold that made you

Notice

for a Moment that can’t be measured

in seconds, throwbacks, captures, feeds, stories,

timelines, protracted but ephemeral special circles

silhouetted on the pericardium bouncing like the ball

that helps you keep time on the nursery rhyme

but what Happens when the Song is Triplicate?

Back to the back to the inside

Front to the front to the Outside

What’s that you ate?

four can partake

then two

Only

One

Go

Outside…the cars pass by

And you wonder if you could go

Into the flurried procession

But you know the answer is no

It’s too much to risk

Too much comfort lies inside

Yet something says “take this Drug”

And let’s go for a Ride

Let’s get nasty and break away

Let’s live on the Other side

Gander at the Atavistic

Brother Gabe arrived just in Time

You best be in shape girl

Because you’re going to have run

The hellhounds is on the loose

You’re in the ghetto bird’s sun

At the bank 

in the tank 

with the rake

What’s at stake

is your hate 

lost your mate?

You don’t say 

Ran away

Back inside

Stay alive

Go awry

Plans derail

Never fails

Belly whale

Jonah’s tale

Ninevah

Love is gone

Heart is wrong

Same old song

It’s your time

Write this rhyme

Stay in line

Wait your turn

Life’s your worm

Eat this plant

Take your grant

Bless the Lord

Can’t afford

Time inside

Live Outside

Soak in Sun

Soak in Son

Life’s Begun

To Take Shape

Joy Create

Resurrect

Soul Connect

Fall in Love

With the Outside

With the Outside I run around

Ain’t no special part of town

Ain’t nobody linking articles here

Cause it’s clickbait all the year

You love to highlight my struggles

But never partake in any

The inside’s pane views some

But on the outside there are many

But it doesn’t fit your narrative

In your crazy Christmas sweater

I love my pumpkin spiced anything

in this cozy fall weather

Winter is always around the corner

But the corner you never turn

‘Cause it’s never Winter on the inside

But on the inside you will burn

eternally without your Sisters and Brothers

eternally without your Pets

eternally your mind is trapped

in society’s wide-reaching net

you don’t know your friend is dying on the inside

Listen up sister, that’s your mate

On both sides the smiles are fake

Yet

They also serve those who sit and wait