A Story For Buddy (Part 3 of 6): The Slow March Of January

This next one tells of the month where everything crept by slowly. Everything built up slowly. Which preceded the events that burned down quickly. Not much to tell here, just various lines pointing out events during the month.

Also -- the frozen rope is a reference to the type of throw a quarterback (american football) makes. A frozen rope is a very tight spiral, very very quick, and very very straight, no lob, no air under, almost like the ball is twirling from one end of a frozen rope to another. Hence the name, frozen rope.

the slow march of january

silence fills the start of days
an erasure of that mistake a distant hope

the feeling of remorse dutifully stays
solitude found at the end of a frozen rope

an eventual end is delayed by one
as all signs point to a wooden stake

the prolonged agony dances with the sun
as the error clouds over a hazy lake

the sleeping past has seen this mistake
the present forgetting, recoiling at its wake.

2.20AM
5/30/2006
RGalang