I am horribly limited
Yet I took a blind leap of faith
One that led me nowhere
But brought back arrows dipped in the sweetest poison
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
I never listen, do I?
Made a few promises along the way,
Ones I was certain I could keep
All because I’d hoped that for a single moment
My love for you could ricochet
It was their fault, not mine
They told me to follow my heart
How unfortunate that it led me to you?
Elegantly I faded, as I burned the letters I wrote,
Hundreds of remarks I couldn’t say to you;
Words I couldn’t admit to myself
I watched as they caught the very flame I’d once thought signified you and I
I left, but I couldn’t bear the desolation you’d be in
If the tear-soaked papers fell into the wrong hands
I couldn’t fathom the cruelty of it all, not any day have I done so
They’d look at me in dismay,
Burn the witch, they’d say
So I ran
I ran as fast as my legs could take me
To someplace, I’d go
To someplace I know
For my perishing heart didn’t dare take another chance on uncertainty.
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