Don't Try [Poetry]

let in new wind

let in new wind

february24twenty19

thinking solemnly that maybe this clever tune could be repurposed to fit a heart's new frame. rang so clear ages ago; it can be recycled into new phenomena, but do I want that?

because he's etched in every word, I can still feel his heartbeat steadily pumping and his hand in mine. punched through so many mirrors to get rid of his eyes, chest torn sideways over pain and uncertainty. will experience ever make a hardened mind wise?

but in words seen with heart before, you hide beneath that licorice grin. dangerous, tearing up pink paper flushing, wrote some passages (more than you'd think). some things have already been covered in that absolutely all of this terrain is new and formidable. caring has never felt so precarious.

does letting you in lock him away? love becomes a part of us, but am I too eroded for renewable affection? run around dazing about violet kisses - eyes widen, panic sets in, what happened this way? - that only when promise chords approach does one even consider the predicament at hand.

all my good wishes to the love left alone together in memory, but always turning around makes vision impossible; stumble, trip, fall away completely.

..well, no real qualms to slow burning affection except for dastardly impatience, toe-tapping to Sinatra. recognizing too-beautiful quicksand eyes in the clouds, hearing all a little bit differently.

closure has never felt so aimlessly open-ended, but the song plays on.