Fatigued Leaps Poem by KarlRomeo PierreLouis

In this echoing night alone and crowded,
falling into feelings I had long forgotten
behind the pine tree and murky lake of ten summers ago
gracious and ungrateful images painted a shadow
of an enemy disguised in the smile and gentleness of a friend
and there in midst of the hug given tenderly
behind the sound of a Philly blues record, I felt it......
the sharp and questionable pain coming from my back and past....
something or another was whispered but my thoughts said it all
my friend, this enemy revealed had taken a stab at me
bluntly and faithfully, stubborn in its release and unforgiving
with its action, I fell into feelings of her, him, and them
feeding grapes to dreams under a spring morning....... laughing
with a romantic novel wrapped in the skin and eyes of my true love
more than me and so much more than the moment
I confessed things for that minute and gave with it my lifetime
with a tear or two for company, searching for reason and redemption
in the background but finding only distant pictures on a wall I was softly forgetting,
I came to breath on my knees then my hands followed to hold my weight
below my internal cries and external pride, I took breaths in ways
that I had practiced as a boy finding amazement with god and sun
here, in this echoing night I fled into the morning after and day before
falling into the reality of good night moon and starlight star bright
its intoxicating and alluring to my mind and fears
these images and bizarre footprints of being human
and in shine of vodka and darkening fatigue I came to only bid and fade
a genuine kiss......