SIDESTEPS
SIDESTEPS
I glanced your way
Before I turned my back
You kept your stance.
Unswerving, stone-cold
Your silence almost deafening.
I’m not one to flinch at an ordeal
But waters run dry, and powers wane
Sometimes even the bravest wail.
When I have already turned the page
At the most inopportune moment
You called and reminded me once more.
Of how happiness still eludes you
How you are not prepared
To see me take a shot
At (un)happiness.
You want me near.
But keep an elbow’s length.
Your sentiments sporadic.
I walk down a rickety-old bridge.
My destination unclear
As a deal that is not yet clinched.
At least I now walk with someone.
Who does not take sidesteps.
But rather holds me steady.
At least for the time being…….
- to mpv from mag
