Benjamin Jameson Morey

Views

Benjamin Jameson Morey - Couches in My Head

 

I was looking at
leaves and acrobats
gourds and scarecrows and the faces of the fall

I'm willing to bet
someday I'll forget
how to love a leaf or love something at all

I'm considering
choices that have led
to this and what it is is I'm working toward
things I loved but can't do anymore

I was swimming in
cheap wood panelling
and differences that live inside my doors

I was thinking
of faces in my head
of people that I loved so hard before

I was sinking in
couches in my head
and girls that kissed me on the face before
ones I loved but don't know anymore

I was living in
tv show curtains
in bedroom in the houses of my friends

I'm considering
the ways beginnings end
and if I would die to be born again

I've been breathing in
ghosts and oxygen
of people in a sad and gaseous form
ones I loved but can't see anymore