03.28.26 “Green Dive” (Poem)

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Not sure what I was feeling here, whether melancholy or excitement, or boredom, or love. Maybe everything mixed together in one. That is life, so this makes sense. Enjoy! -BCB

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GREEN DIVE

by Brian Bolding

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Pumped up on Cinnamon gum

Like a skunk without a cause

Railing in the back seat, elegantly

Like a 50 year old on Menopause

Driving down this green drive

So pretty and serene

I imagine you’d fall for me

But you bring out the mean

Scattered clothes dangling

at our campsite at 4 am

I roll over and notice

you’re one of them

you’re one of them

Skipping through

security sirens blaring & trip wire

I have seen the future

and I will survive

Choosing a different path

Just about set me free

Tonight in the bubble bath

I’ll try my hardest to see.

You got me then lost me

Oh look what it cost me

A few more years of self hate and

being awkwardly late

because i couldn’t face the truth

that has dogged me since my youth

Take me on that green drive

Show me I’m alive… again

Tell me we will get away

like Bonnie & Clyde, and win

Hold me here

Absorb my tears

Let me tell you how a boy like me

survived all these years.

I’m done with you

We’re through

Don’t follow me, leave me alone

I need my space too.

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3.28.26 11:26 am bb. / edit 11:29 am / edit 11:33 am.