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What

12-4-03

 

What can you call home?

A town with no airport, a moving ship, sailing the ocean,

Always outside, always passing through, always changing, pulling up anchor

 

What can you call forever?

A moment, a struggle, time standing still,

Forgetting and remembering there is a world outside

 

What can you call endurance?

A longing, an experience, waiting it out

Seeing where it leads instead of cutting it off

 

What can you call love?

A breath, an honesty, feeling in spite of fear,

Exploring how far those emotions go

 

What can you call secret?

A plastic bed, a strange new familiar place, sleeping chastely beside,

Thinking of love for a lover at home

 

What can you call regret?

An assumption, a disappointment, I thought I knew you

Paralyzed with shock finding I am there alone

 

What can you believe?

A story, a memory, you weren’t there,

I try to explain

 

What can you hear?

A hesitation, a silence, weighing your response

I wish I could see inside you

By Fay Grund

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