Slight Return
And why are you the one to
suffer?
Do they call you a man,
then be woman enough to
leave her
if just for a short while?
In yearning children lies a
choice,
for see how she misses my
voice,
she nightly fingers memories
moist,
charting mazes where it
all started,
strokes our likeness,
hopeful hearted,
quick snapped just before
we parted,
and weeps, only for a
short while.
Back tracked overland,
where
I ticked off oceans across
stormy sky,
came hard about. Seamen tangled her hair,
sucking at salt that was
lately there
in sticky ropey coils lain on
her deck.
Jack Tar inspecting high
crow’s nest,
she closed her eyes, to test
and test,
and scarce can draw another
breath
upon his return, she will be
blessed,
and only in a short while.
You, with your brass
wedding band,
your left hand down a bit
driving ban,
your woolly blanket
communications ban,
your banish everything you
can ban,
your cancel you cancel me
culture,
your pleased to say hello to my
vulture,
who tears and tears daily at
your flesh,
until still later, after all
these years,
where the only dying done is
death:
but just for a short
while.
We’re both of us getting distant older,
look over shoulders at horizons
colder,
but, then again, to few to
mention,
passing each other to melt
the tension,
without flicking your lids
just once.
What’s that kicking at
your can,
recalls in you that you had
a plan?
Dust that's brushed beyond
the pan,
flecks you of what you once believed,
that it’s not enough to
talk of grief,
so feel it for a short while.
And why am I the one to
return?
Do they call me a man,
with woman enough to need
her:
if just for a short while?
Do I seek and tell you
what I learned
or stand upon Cornish
cliffs and burn
like Angel? To play you
like this guitar,
pick ancient tunes that
speak our scars,
scream we must be free or
not to be,
gales disperse my words indifferently,
and the only one standing
here is me,
perhaps just for a short while.
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