at the end

of a long and winding perch

they tire me, these boys
who mean to make me
an old woman so young
meaning I guess to put
an end to possibility
for fear of their constant
little deaths but we manage

to love somehow in a place
of constant beginnings
far from their halls of
perpetual mirrors

& invite them in, and
they mean well but
get sick before arrival
afraid i guess to enter
anywhere where they
are not the all and
its eventual end.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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