Empty Rhetoric

WM Reyes

Overflowing liquor

and endless smoke consumed perpetually.

We know each other

only by name and chance.

Behind the shadows

there are more secrets, more lies.

We possess

neither the rhyme

nor the rhythm

but happenstance;

just catch the moment.

We are the living existence of

neither friendship nor love.

Only passing by

never to return again.

We justify

the kiss of temporal amnesia.

But there’s no real reason

for this enduring oblivion.

And like the overflowing liquor

we drown in the midst of our consent.

And with your endless smoke

we will forever be concealed…

You breathe air and life

and with less faith,

 it is ‘only now’ that you believe,

The present,

“Carpe diem”- Seize the day.

No more, no less.

For you will always be free.

You are careless,

Charming.

You are boundless.

Overflowing liquor

and endless smoke consumed perpetually…boundless.