Let Go
Posted: 07 Sep 2019, 20:50
V2:
Let Go
I'm like a violin player
reading the notes ahead
on my perched sheet,
even as I’m scraping faster
and faster, determined
to catch up with the notes.
How could I have expected
turning towards the kitchen
to whisk up an omelet,
as I do every morning,
to see you toppled
over onto the linoleum,
your doggy paws curled
and quivering?
Even now I'm shaken
by how your body
quivered like a bow's string
when it has been pulled
taut--and suddenly
let go.
V1:
Let Go
I'm like a violin player
reading the notes ahead
on my perched sheet,
even as I’m scraping faster
and faster, determined
to catch up with the notes
yet to be played,
the future always there
in front of me...
How could I have foreseen
turning towards the kitchen
to whisk up an omelet,
as I do every morning,
to see you toppled
over onto the linoleum,
your doggy paws curled
and shaking like
small fists?
Even now I'm shaken
by how your body
quivered like a bow's string
when it has been pulled
taut--and suddenly
let go.
Let Go
I'm like a violin player
reading the notes ahead
on my perched sheet,
even as I’m scraping faster
and faster, determined
to catch up with the notes.
How could I have expected
turning towards the kitchen
to whisk up an omelet,
as I do every morning,
to see you toppled
over onto the linoleum,
your doggy paws curled
and quivering?
Even now I'm shaken
by how your body
quivered like a bow's string
when it has been pulled
taut--and suddenly
let go.
V1:
Let Go
I'm like a violin player
reading the notes ahead
on my perched sheet,
even as I’m scraping faster
and faster, determined
to catch up with the notes
yet to be played,
the future always there
in front of me...
How could I have foreseen
turning towards the kitchen
to whisk up an omelet,
as I do every morning,
to see you toppled
over onto the linoleum,
your doggy paws curled
and shaking like
small fists?
Even now I'm shaken
by how your body
quivered like a bow's string
when it has been pulled
taut--and suddenly
let go.