if you raise a joke
you´ll live to be the punchline
the murky twilight of youth
never amounted to anything
beyond itself
love means daring
love hurts like truth
the aftermath of dalliance
leads back to the fortress
of excess
in which you can hide
in which you can gloat
in which the nothingness
dresses up like profoundness
deeper than rejection
rests a splinter of awakening
the funny part
sgehlert 