Dry-Shod

A Poem by Pete

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. - Thoreau

i ran my fingers over your soul

kissing every inch of time

trying to smooth over split-seconds

rubbing lotion on the past

damn, it's still callous

© 2024 Pete

Author's Note

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Thoreau

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Added on November 26, 2024
Last Updated on November 26, 2024

Author

Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..