Untitled #4

Untitled #4

By

Nathan Caleb Camerer

Many moons have passed

I still feel the sunburn on my knees

Attempts have been made

Too many to count

Trying to regain that momentum

Of a day in the sun

Pictures that I wish I had taken

Chronicle a lifelong search

Where the color of hair marks each new chapter

Heaven and hell

Wrapped in stars and scars

Both mental and physical

A magnet for random gunfire

With a bedroom naughty voice

That makes my heart skip

Every time I hear it

Or read words that it could speak

I open my chest

So you can eat my heart

A predator posing as a house pet

That sits at the top of the list

Of chances missed

Or not taken

When and where will the time come

Is it now or never

Keeping hopes in check

Trying to not let expectations crawl thru the roof

Another beautiful day

Frozen in time

Do we try and walk on thin ice

Or hope that we fall thru

Into the warm water that hides underneath

With a current that can take us away

To someplace new

The lessons of the past

Become the golden bricks

That pave the path to our future