Pale fists​

Patience is the right-hand man of hesitation.
I would know what that is like.

You can make someone question less and less –
it is as easy as making them think

There is nothing left in this world to die for.

On second thought,

I believe that it’s the right

of the man in the present
to wait for the past

as if it ever promised to ever return.
There is no other way to live.

Do I pray that it stops getting harder, and too uncomfortable
to understand?
I want to be angry until I drool too much –

march too far.

I am not prepared to see that under all the layers

of grunts and cries, there is a gasp.

Heart is a sinking feeling;
life is a plop.

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Numbness is earned – anytime now.

Waiting until then – walking directionless
With fists pale, in pockets dark.

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Donovan Kim is a South Korean from Seoul. He is a playwright, published poet, and novelist who has self-published the novella Odyssey Halt. His sophomore work, Fateman will soon be published.