Jeff Wrubel Poems

Two of us alone throwing color at our shadows
Cigarette smoke, just like that we'd drift away
I never looked from the downpour to the rainbow
Or seized a moment, never asked of you to stay
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Remember
As a kid I'd sit in the grass
a breeze drifting my dreams
into the future
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Paralysis of the brain
Cortex to spine
Limbs hung like vine
An empty page
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Your skin is a canvas

Your mind an opera
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When your fading glow darkens a lover

The silhouette draws a tattoo on your skin
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Language is the first art you learn
Symbols for the silent films
Inflection paints the sets
The Cinematography
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When we fall into bed with a heart full of lead
Shining mind now a tomb projected onto the moon
Dream theater a thread tying off the day's end
Mind tide and typhoon wash away the blue gloom
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To dream without sleeping
and scar without healing
Exist through the memories
and remember a feeling
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Drain your whiskey bottle into the ocean
Refill it with your saltwater tears
Divided, or concentrated
Medicinal influx, cathartic exodus
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Graying memory replaces finite hopes light
Paul Revere on a midnight ride
Skewed legend supplants perfect hindsight
While Israel Bissell is left behind
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