Balloon Animal

I’m sure you had a logical reason
for quietly leaving me behind,
a justifiable synopsis
that made drifting away effortless.
I was confused and hurt,
like a wild animal almost tame
but not quite.
You were my balloon outside the carnival gate,
all those years ago.
So,

what if I breathe in
then out
and drop the string I held too long for you?
There is pleasure in that,
in being weightless for a while.

Dearest,
We live in different worlds,
you in a brain
and I in a heart.
So,

this is how I say

Goodbye.

 

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Risk

Offer my ears riches,
they’ve been blind in darkness too long.
Deliver more to me than dry, bare bones.
Utter something raw and true.
Make it sting.
Say something real.
Speak something worthy.
Leave me certain of your intentions.
I am too strong to pine for definitives a moment longer

But

Make words that are more than empty shells of what could be,
and I will risk my soul to bathe in the light with you.