Jess Three

Why dream of empathy, sitting on a wall, too tired to speak, enough to raise the stakes, risk being torn, the useless dates we make, I wait for the seasons, own a crown of thorns, giving up on reason, kids run about the place, crying cast forlorn, I have to act brave, don’t look at me please, as if you’ve been caught, dreaming in the sea, a hand that shakes, askance at my gall, understand I resonate, this isn’t really me, jellied to the core, a flower of deep tranquillity, asking only more.