Let Them Be, 2006
Everyone wants to be free.
You just have to let them,
what they want to go, further.
He offered ideas, he didn’t ask.
I would smile and go along. Was he
just passing in the sun?
Will he return to me? Freedom
grabbed again. Moving forward with myself,
again. Always striving,
Can’t stay still, can’t settle for simplicity,
can’t tend the land. I started to garden but,
I can’t wait for the plants to grow. I want
to plant and leave immediately. Let’s zoom off
to foreign lands and I’ll make your life impressionable.
Maybe you want your distractions, no comfort there.
Many hands. Moving this way and that.
I need to practice reading, outloud. Read to me.
I had said, but, he couldn’t. He’d read three lines at
once & that doesn’t translate to the ear. I’ll leave him
behind, broken. And set out, for another place, again.
I was always scared of the city, the addict. But, now
I’m clean. It doesn’t scare me anymore. I just need a distraction
until you come around again. We’re almost a year older, don’t
go on without me. I’m too brilliant, too sparkling to pass by,
and not notice. You showed me that.
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