Kevin N. Murphy

“people go mad in idiosyncratic ways.”
-K.R. Jamison

sometimes late at night
when my eyes start to burn
i remember there’s something cut there
and it’s pain i’ve earned

for to cast aside
the safer way
to shortcut
the work for the day

the measure you should take
and proceed at a humble rate
for your eyes are more than beautiful
so keep them for seeings sake
-of a scratch on my eye I got for not wearing safety glasses when i was cutting tile.

Warm days fill my head
Like beautiful lilies
And the sun casts a shadow on the clouds

And oh - those rainbows are long gone
And mud lies where those days once shone