STORY by R.M. Engelhardt

A man
Drifts alone
In a time-
less darkness

Half
Awake


Half
Asleep

Unknowing

He becomes
His own
Universe
His own grief
Within a grief


When
Life
Love

Only
Comes
From
Living

Being


The story
Must go
On

There
Are no
Endings

There is
No death

R.M. Engelhardt is an American poet and Writer who is the author of several books over the last two decades including Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz and others. His work has also been published by such journals as Retort, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, Fashion For Collapse, 2nd Avenue, The Angry Poet, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Full of Crow, The Outlaw Poetry Network, The Rye Whiskey Review & in many others. His new book of poetry is entitled " Dark Lands" published by Whiskey City Press, 2019.

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