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Sometimes I Can't See


by Darryl Price


any love when I'm looking. In your mundane
 
weather reporting. Your beat up shoes, 
for instance. I don't find the love anywhere. 
Not in your precious gardens. Not on 
your lovely doorstep, not at your decorated 

gates. In the skies overlooking 
your feverish dreams. I don't feel the love 

as you secretly approach with your road 
closed eyes. I said I wouldn't be surprised, 
and I'm not. That sometimes I can't feel the 

simple, endless love that's supposed to be 

inside everything. But it still haunts me. 
Sometimes I can't see past the boulders in 
your frightened blank stares at the forest of 
fast rising screens overtaking even 

the strongest of trees. I don't find love driving 
around in your caravan of billions
 
of cars. I don't feel the love in the 
sad, indifferent accusations you 
lobby against others who certainly

don't look and act the way you did when you 

were that young. Your gamed remainders and your 
constant reminders of poorly rewritten 
histrionics. Your blood-soaked fear of 
lost bird feathers. Sometimes I can't see love 

wanting to live in your houses with you. 
Your obsession with enough clocks to choke
 
a king horse. Your kindness in a museum-
framed tomb nailed to the walls of your dark and 
windowless hearts. The sunken treasure 

trove of our time. I don't find the love I'm 

looking for waiting for the mailman or 
the latest delivery truck to enter 
my neighborhood. I don't feel the love
showing me the way to enjoy this life

I've been given. Brian Wilson died and 
people began telling cruel jokes in his

honor. Aurora said she would never 
unleash hatred upon this world. Don't blame
people trying to better themselves. And 

please don't feel bad asking for change. People

in the wild west don't know what she is talking 
about. They go on harming each other 
in as many ways as there are stars.
Sometimes I can't see anything coming 

at us but more emotional blackmail 
from our leaders' stubborn and greedy minds.

Still, I'm glad you are here, too, even if 
I don't get to shake your hand personally.
This is my way to accomplish that.     
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