marketplace

— a poem by chase klavon

trapped inside my thoughts

i am steadily teetering in and out of sanity

teaching myself how to breathe unbothered breaths

amidst the loud silence 

screaming stories untold to my open ears

begging tomorrow for another hour of today.

i want to feel this moment until my eyes go blurry

me and you and us 

drinking chocolate milk with the sunrise

to the faint hum of your father’s rock n roll

a cloudless morning draped in last night’s sorrows

spewing our last words until reality collides with sanity

fresh morning dew hiding among the leftover yesterday

when we traded our souls on my front lawn

it was me and you and us

forgetting how to live while we were breathing 

making a home out of each other's minds

to the tune of the sun tacitly arising

living only in my dreams 

among a racetrack of palpitating tomorrows