By Ali
Date: 2007 Sep 06
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[[2007.09.06.08.14.14849]]

Action/Inaction

Circumstances spin
and swallow, spitting me back out,
as if I was never there,
just here.  I'm fragile,
but too tired to break again,
so I'll bend
as if 'begin' was just another lullaby.

I don't know what this means.
I don't know what you mean.
Everything is reckless,
and part of me just doesn't care
when, or why, or how--
just as long as 'yes' is your answer
and summer is still in your smile.

But in the back of my mind, anger shuffles
from one space to the next,
pacing wordlessly,
and I only heed it
on the odd days.  They're right,
they're right, they're right--
I know.

I just don't know
what I'm going to do about it.