Bracing for Impact
Try to pick up the pieces to put the puzzle intact
Life runs to the river in waves of myopic abstract
Introspection treads water as the tide looks back
The earth moves on as I wait, bracing for impact
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Hiding decadent daydreams behind my dark shades react
Shift in the sand reaching for the Sedaris book your exact
You touch my painting I feel its shades longing to interact
The earth moves as I wait, bracing for impact
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You speak softly as I lean in to catch echoes subtle pact
Fear chills fire into involuntary shivers of silent contract
Caution cries look both ways while I turn toward contact
The earth moves on as I wait, bracing for impact
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Old memories singe tripped wires sing a double song tract
Breaks a heart held human bondage in its sinister protract
A division bell screams mistrust that no chimes can redact
The earth moves on as I wait, bracing for impact
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A messenger brings a note with John Donne's poetic tact
Opening a curtain to the light, hope in my heart unpacked
Untie a ribbon that holds a crystal view avowing love to act
And the earth moves on as I wait, bracing for impact
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