Poem 497

Direct message flying straight out of a time of mixed up confusion …

Don’t Fool Yourself

I don’t
about the chances
                                       about the dances
up and back
the steps required
on the unbeaten track
of you
I don’t fool myself
you always tell me the truth
that you find it easy
to share
to reach
to ask
don’t fool myself the past
is gone
when I know the pain grinds on
inside you
who is nobody’s fool
I don’t deny I don’t lie
to myself
that there’s a switch to be flicked
that it can ever be quick
we go on our knees in the dark
toward a lightening of the sky
you have it all
to give
if I’m a fool
to try
         still
I will