Life and Love
Life is absolute absurdity finishing in oblivion.
Love is the pain that awakens us to the absurdity.
The core of love is created by the tangible weight of absence.
Disappointment is the currency of love.
Love teaches us about pain. Life teaches about us dying.
Love is the fresh smell and electrically charged air of a coming thunderstorm.
Love is the heat of the sun breaking through the storm clouds and the steam rising thickly from the asphalt.
Love is the burden of absence crushing the back, the couple yelling in the cafe, and the dog pissing on a hydrant.
Lay me down on my pillow of earth. Lay me down and cover me with my blanket of turf. My friends, lay me down and just walk away.