Past-Date

Wallpaper curling up
Sounds starting spilling out
Door's flung open
Cold-burnt face still hoping

Turn the
Page on another shot
Chest may be thawing out
Door's half-open
But the chapter's closing

          Look and see my space
          Still half-full
          But I'm sitting on the shelf
          Half-
               turn to view my tag
          Plain to read
          Expired two Julys ago

Tongue-tied with shoes unlaced
I'll try to keep my faith
Bottled and frozen
Behind windows fogging

One cup cheap hot coffee
Bones melt, pour out of me
Stuck, still hoping
Frostbit and laid open

          Sit and take up space
          Emptied out
          Full of questions and thin air
          Look
               down to read my tag
          Peeled off
          Expired two Julys ago.