Body Entanglement

Never before have I seen such hollow eyes
leading to such a shallow heart.
Dark and infected with the disease of envy.
They permeate the mind of those who choose to lose themselves.
I traveled that tunnel once,
With no headlights
Full Speed.
And when the light finally shown
I was tangled by my weeping body
and looking to you, unscathed.
Staring, I knew, in that moment;
you were gone, dead.
And I, granted, a new lease on life.

Fragmented thoughts and a farewell to you.

Today is a fragmented thought
Incomplete sleep sequences
coupled with visitations from the past.
Faces, incomplete.
Dear brother,
I cannot feel your embrace.
I know your face is smiling
and arms extended toward me.
But, incomplete.
I see you and our final farewell.
"Brother."
Written in children's handwriting
with backward letters and improper speech,
rested on your chest, no longer rising with life,
lay a small token of the park you left.
One last breath of life
and my entire being crippled.
I was so selfish.
I am too selfish.
Where have you gone?