Too late in the day for regret

Too late in the day for regret:
those years of lysergic and Lebanese,
of mushrooms and Millers,
when we knew,
despite the fugue of dissipation
in the theatre of the prodigal,
we were close to striking some vein of truth.
 
Always on the brink of some form of deliverance
or decimation:
free in the unio mystica of naked limbs,
or snared by some base hunger;
transfigured by a night swim in a bioluminescent bay,
or sinking under the sentence of a stone-eyed sun;
on route to liking some part of ourselves
taking shape in the haze,
or staggering into thickening dread.

That it should happen:
those years of locust liberated by a love story,
our mouths full of laughter,
our circus suits flung into the gorse,
our guitars and grainy photos packed for travel,
to walk, arm in arm,
out on the wild rim of happy;
who would have guessed that?

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