Typewriter Series #2646 by Tyler Knott GregsonAre they loved...

Typewriter Series #2646 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Are they loved enough to be ink on flesh,
permanent and enduring,
will tattoos of these words
outlast the words themselves?

The trajectory is off, no one said
this mountain ended in cliff,
where has it fallen, what decay
lives at the bottom?  

They came once, many
then many more, the faithful
and the interested, the passionate
and pleading.  If all this
fades, I’ll think of the ink,
the flesh walking and carrying
all my ache into the rest
of this world.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-