Ghost Of Chances
We were destined to drink
one drink too many just a block
from the wind-swept bus depot.
Those buses would stop running
long before we indulged our last call.
I drank the neck and shoulders
of my beer, then peeled at the label.
“Apparitions” by Matthew Good
played through the bar and I forgot
every Nickelback song I ever heard.
“Tonight,” I asked her. “Let me break
the dawn with you — let us trade
the light of candles for the lightning.”
She looked out the window:
rivulets descended
and evening darkened.
She looked down into
her drink and mumbled:
“I’ll love you…
While you like me,
but when you love
me, I’ll leave you.”
©2022 David Alec knight All rights reserved.
David Alec Knight grew up in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. David has had many poems printed in American and Canadian journals and anthologies. His poems have appeared in print and/or on-line in Verse Afire, The Rye Whiskey Review, Cajun Mutt Press, The Lothlorien Poetry Journal (some poems in Leper Mosh appeared in these publications, as well as earlier versions of some poems appearing at allpoetry.com). In 2021, David was recipient of The Ted Plantos Memorial Award for Poetry. His first book of poetry, The Heart Is A Hollow Organ, soon followed. His second collection, LEPER MOSH, was published by Cajun Mutt Press in Sept. of 2022. David works in healthcare.
