Happy New Year B

ANGEL
People, is this any way
To start a new year
Have compassion,
Benny just lost his cat

BENNY
My dog
But I appreciate that

ANGEL
My cat had a fall
And I went through hell

BENNY
It's like losin' a-
How did you know that she fell?
~*~"Happy New Year B" RENT

Okay, feel like posting some poems, because they've piled up since September. Let's see what's in the vault...

Relenquish
Keep away from the fraying edges
As your reality shrinks to nothing
Doomed on a dying island
With nowhere to go but drowning

Forgotten in the world of the sleeping
Is a safety net now left to the dead
Useless are all our defenses
Stay away from the lurking dawns

A sparkling in the distance
The blade of your final demise
Creeping forward, ever watching
Eternally the only one
--9.27.04

Swan Song
I'm sitting on a chair
In a barren, empty room
Listening to the raindrops
Falling on the window
There's a single light
Shining overhead

But suddenly the chair
Is on a fully furnished stage
And the raindrops are the applause
Of the audience above
The light has become brighter
As a spotlight on my face

Filled with the urge to perform
I jump up and begin to dance
Singing and acting, belting out a show
Like no one has seen before
And no one will see again

I finish the show
Exit the stage
Ready to come back for my bow
But when I pass by the curtain,
The audience is gone
And I'm left with a chair in a room in the rain.
--9.29.04