Paper Cranes

two lines

allowance at 11 pm. 

But listen here, Mother.

Have I not already failed in my quest?

Do chapters upon chapters of phantoms mean nothing?

Riddle me this if two people climb a wall

but they never climb back down

did they ever climb up at all?

the ladder keeps growing

reach upwards

or downwards

i can’t always tell

at some Point it probably

lead/led me

thirty - one nights of 

N othing

and when you look back all you see 

are paper bags littering the sidewalk;

clogging up the gutters.

the endlessness that stretches on and on and on

once your trail of cranes

leading you home have

flown away and you’re left with only

your own heartbeat and 

the blood—Your blood—rushing through your head. Your hands,

I’ll remind you

you folded those cranes

One by One

created a magnificent chaos from the senseless order

Churned—churning—the endlessness into infinity