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Couldn't Tell You

...still can't

By BrenPublished about 6 hours ago Updated about 6 hours ago 1 min read
Couldn't Tell You
Photo by Andy Beefeater on Unsplash

i couldn’t tell you when

i don’t know myself

not yet any way

we drifted

too far

.

i couldn’t tell you why

i don’t know myself

there’s a hundred reasons

and not one of them

is any fuckin good

.

i couldn’t tell you where

i don’t know myself

it’s a real

location nonspecific

kind of deal

but i know where im feeling it

.

i couldn’t tell you what

i don't know myself

and even if i did

how does that help me

how does that change

my situation

how does that

alter

my now?

.

i couldn’t tell you anything

the clarity of hindsight

provides no clear direction

the “I”

in this equation

occludes and eludes me

so many angles

For Fun

About the Creator

Bren

"It's just a token of my extreme!" - Frank Zappa

"Cause it's all in the heat of the moment It's all in the pain!!!" - Devin Townsend

Centre Stage with the wonderful Heather Hubler

I'm writing it out not acting in doubt!

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  • Dianaabout 3 hours ago

    and the poem could be beautiful while unfinished thought... and a human is human as a child or a old full grown man... and time is movement even when I stand still in morning, noon, evening... true, although there is always a weft to each weave and there is a pattern and there is a weave of the final work regardless of the fact that the thread flew from left to right and left over and over again... so, I when right and wrong.. and...

  • Harper Lewisabout 5 hours ago

    Love this, been there for sure.

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