“Guard you heart!”
You misread that verse
and muttered
Neolithic numptiness!

Candi Staton comes to me:
“Young hearts run free!”
To fail and rage and flow
and learn to trust enough
(as wiser hearts may know).

Unbox that
Precious pale
Cynical bitter
Over-watched
Crab-apple Gollum ‘guarded’ heart
from which sweetness barely flows
these days;

That never learned
to weather mess
or fix your anxiousness
and let you grow.

Let’s go!
Sing karaoke.
Go on!
Bellow!

And make that perfect moment
when we have
all we ever wanted…
…except tomorrow.

“When you just can’t break away“
Just can’t break away.