IS IT HERE?
Is it here?
It seems that way…
What did I expect though?
Did I suppose it would uncover itself with ease?
I don’t see why it would.
I’m embarrassed to admit it:
I almost hope I was blind to it.
I wish for unwavering malleability
And sincere softness,
I do.
But it seems there is something ahead,
Something all too real, even for my most audacious
moment.
If only there was something I could clutch…
But I did know of this.
I did know, now that I think about it.
I carefully recall lusting after it,
Something out of the ordinary, otherworldly,
That would knock me out
And cut me open irreversibly.
But courage never stays,
No matter how deserving you imagine yourself.
You might enjoy its aristocracy now and again,
But it never stays.
That irritates my occasionally lazy disposition,
Which fancies itself reasonable.
So… there it is.
This certainty has lingered within me,
Looking at me sideways,
Puzzled at my willingness to play dumb.
It never left me.
Why was I expecting something less than that?
Why indeed.