Shelby

Sober enough to ask why, the way that’s been chosen, before anything you deny, more a sombre space, your mouth frozen, tired of these phrases, sing your favourite lines, time's gone by with roses, it's better when you try, wave at all great stations, beyond life's hopeless, who gets shrunk or wasted, even when the sun shines, witness love's cloaking, more open than the sky, what settles on your face, goes beyond the broken, blows away such traces, a paper at your side, writer's little notebook, simply a wish to verify, what truth is spoken