To Laugh Again

I remember that laugh.

12am shaking twist bottle caps.

Cool harbor mind deploying frigate fleets,

loading shrapnel cannon rounds.

mental artillery crashing eroded beaches.

Climb claimed machine gun nests,

rest once your weary heartbeat spits

re-sculpting fluids.

Vacay once voracious riptides,

shove hard liquors down.

Drunk to comatose depths,

swimming past layers of my room's darkness;

Laughing without

judgment.

hatred.

fear.