Thoughts, like water
Flow freely down
Head to hand to page
As you drove away
My thoughts never strayed
Moments lost in transportation.

A new exercise
A new will power
Wandering thoughts dragged
The gravity of reality
Earth so far, a fall
I crash loudly,
Your heart full of hope
My chest full of pain
And my thoughts circling sleep.

Why does the world never stop?
Do I ask too much of it?
Do I utter the wrong incantation?
Have I no voice? Have I no lungs?
Or have I no heart?

© J. Bernhard

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