8pm
You just came at the wrong timereally,
and came so
sweetly, so
out of the blue and
without pretense
without warning but
without fear
and
without posing
any threat.
And i thank you for that—
I really do, because
it is
unusual
for that to happen.
But I can't accept,
for reasons
unspoken,
that keep me
worrying
at all hours of the day—
I just can't,
even if we
talk,
for a series of
slow-beating heart minutes
as we stretch
out the phrases
and say what we must say—
I just
cannot
bring myself to you.
I wish to God you'd found someone else
because I'm afraid of
breaking your heart
a little
and it is such a good
heart—
one I hope I can
still
somehow
come to know.
Poetry by clarity
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Written on 2011-02-16 at 07:14
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