words by dominic riccitello

7:01
my heart skipped a beat
your presence caressed
feels like sudden revenge
a twenty something stuck in reverse
with a soul of an elder
and fears that slept forever near

the master of illusion
that crept upon a poet
one who thought he always knew it
but slow goes and who knows
we were with and stuck in sudden snow
just lost in a world of frost
and fried in heavy highs

this world of emptiness
floating in a world of hazy
you always knew my crazy
the anxiety, the way i moved with class

we were until we weren’t
you were all that you were
a boy who loved his own ego and stature
the one who never knew how to treat him