You gingerly step onto the boat.
Often, I wonder why you trust me this readily.
Aren't you afraid
that I'll cut you with ribbons
of words?
Wound you with the alternatives
of our past;
or burn you with pages of
all my lost hopes?
You wait for me to step aboard,
You wait, smile,
And I know I'll never do any of those things-
Consciously.
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A Symphony Of Darkness [WATTYS 2018 LONGLIST] [COMPLETE]
KöltészetHighest rank #34 in poetry (26 jan 2018) #1 reverie (11 sept 2018) A young body, an old soul. Sometimes, it is hard not to fall in love with what would eventually become just a memory. Do you hear that? The sound of silence? That's the symphony of t...