Momentum

from Greater Divides by Arliss Nancy

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I had a feeling that my life had hit the sum of its momentum and I was at the tail end winding down. Then I get to thinking about the friends that I’ve lost and the bridges I’ve burned just to get here, I was kicking at some coals that aint gone out. But the night that I sweated out into the street with the heaviest snow falling down at my feet, I know I got myself into this, but I don’t see myself getting out alive. If it happened once there’s bound to be another one. I don’t need to say how I need you in the worst way. I need you in the worst way like your dim lit alley needs your cigarettes in the rain burning and waiting for the curtain to fall. I know, she said, “I’ve been holding this weight.” She wouldn’t look me in the eye. We broke slow over the night; I couldn’t set the story straight. I wish I could say that it wasn’t my fault. I got too good at being gone out singing former lovers’ songs. I saw the writing on her wall. But that night that we, we waded out into the sea, and we washed these sins off of me because I don’t see myself getting out alive. If it happens once there’s bound to be another one. I don’t need to say how I need you in the worst way. So Maria won’t you dance a little longer? Pour your drink a little stronger, let it calm you down. Let a strong drink calm you down, I’ll hold up the losing end until they lay me in the ground. And god rest my bones, but if left alone, I know they’re going to dig until they find their way back home. Over the rivers, through the fields full of snow. Over the mountain pass in the Colorado cold.

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from Greater Divides, released May 10, 2016

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