It’s a striving world, this thing is,
A place of pushing and pulling,
A get outta my way place,
An I’m right, you’re wrong place
That leaves us yelling from across the road
Like a couple of squabbling chickens.
It’s a burning place, this thing,
Tinder dry scorched souls
And everyone is carrying a torch.
It’s an earbud world, this noisy place
A jogging smart phone
random selected soundtrack world of internal sounds
where you have to unplug to be heard,
to ask what was that?
Because it is my voice, my aural shield, that matters.
A place cluttered with broken pieces
We left behind like a car with a smoking transmission
On a dark street at midnight.
Things we make someone else’s problem.
Childhoods, hearts, dreams,
Stuff we picked up, rolled around and crumbled
And left scattered on some trail as if we were coming back
With a pot of glue to fix it.
As if you’d be waiting.
As if I could walk up, sit down and say, Hey, sweetheart, how the hell are ya?
As if it would start again where it left off.
Mid-sentence.
Wordless wondering incomplete
With sad eyes and small tears
With a hollowness that ever echoes
With a basket of loneliness strapped like a gunnysack
That I asked you to fill.
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About michaelstephendaigle
I am the author of the award-winning Frank Nagler Mystery series. "The Swamps of Jersey (2014); "A Game Called Dead" (2016) -- a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Author Contest; "The Weight of Living" (2017) -- “The Weight of Living” was awarded First Place for mysteries in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Award contest;
Named A Notable 100 Book, Shelf Unbound 2018 Indie Book Awards;
Named a Distinguished Favorite, 2018 Independent Press Awards.
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 Big NYC Book Contest.
Named a Finalist in the 2019 Book Excellence Awards.
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Named a Book Award Winner in 2021 by Maincraft Media Fiction Book Awards;
The Red Hand (2019) a Distinguished Favorite in the 2019 Big NYC Book Contest
Named Second Place winner for mysteries in the 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
Named a Notable 100 Book in the 2019 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2020 Independent Press Awards
A Nominee in the 2020 TopShelf Book Awards
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Dragony Rising (2022) First Place for Mysteries in the 2022 Royal Dragonyfly Book Awards; named a Notable 100 Indie Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards; A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Independent Press Awards. A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Big NYC Book Awards.
An I’m right, you’re wrong place
