Feel it, when a wave
spooks a present state of mind,
unexpected, often uninvited,
yet enough resilience to freeze a moment.
We walk like this when we wish to show
a safer side, a confident bit of posturing.
We smile when the need does arise;
it surely does speak to our manner.
We question everything in our head,
any notion, however idle, comes alive
We regret that time we hadn’t really thought
about the consequence, we’d forgotten that day.
We choose music, talk show, letters, even newsstand
‘literature’ to appease the moment our mind shifts.
We discover a new distraction in a tender moment,
and suddenly that one time before has left the room.
Anxiety speaks aloud far too often to be ignored,
we know, we weather the storm, we give in
to the long entrails of furious emotion standing
upon an aching heart, an explosive mind, our eyes.
We’d rather dress ourselves to the nines and ignore
any self-taught criticism, rather than play our demise.
Since when we cowered in the corner as a young child
we have discovered safeguards in place, all the time.
Yet, that memory still lingers, still waits to chime
in.
This wonderful lyric that deconstructs “posturing” but never loses sight of the fragile reasons of inner being. Great.
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