"I use simple words, so you'll know what i mean.
And even if you don't, you'll know the words."
- yannis ritsos
water dripping
from the sink.
i watch the red stain grow -
no significance.
sometimes life is like that -
details that justify nothing.
as my fingers
feel the hairs
in my beard going white,
the scars never quite gone away,
remind me that common labor
may purify the soul
but never will equal redemption.
