Redemption’s Cost

in my dreams, there is death,
often dismemberment, symbolic
in far too many ways,
a Houston, Texas, if you will.

When I said I loved it here,
You insisted we go to the Hospital.

reading poetry to psychiatrists,

What do you do, when you have nothing to do?

Alleinsein is different than Einsamkeit

sorrow or solitude,
a Universe’s gratitude.

I’ve held on to everything –
except the dining room table