Keeping Up

Stick around please

Wait out through the fall

I'm not right in the howling wind

An end tide around me

Has stayed in

The dream has not paid

I fall out of it falling weight

The faded ideals are gathering

In a walkabout tale

In a digging into dirt

I failed and returned

Flying through a fog

Peering through the cracks

For the moon

Or the fire of the sun

In reaching I've become a figurine

A calm around me

Stray ashes that fall

In low light through the backwoods

And fatal ideas that gather

In the corners while I wait

For the limited return of feeling

It ain't worth the hold out for it

Once you feel like you've become unreal

And collide which is what

I've strayed out through the fog

But I can't feel the sun or the wind

So come out with it once

In a straight action

Crawl through my window

With your heart tied to a stick

Come out with it once

I'm afraid I can't afford to wait