"running away"

The poet may hold
a simple word or two
and be wrung in to opposites.

Like running away to the future,
to the words that may bring erasure
-- if not new hope --

running away from the words
in the same heartbroken beat, from the past,
to hide the melancholia
from the kind page
that wears no mask.



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The poet may hold
a simple word or two
and be wrung in to opposites.

Like running away to the future,
to the words that may bring erasure
-- if not new hope --

running away from the words
in the same tearing heartbeat, from the past,
to hide the melancholia
from the kind page
that wears no mask.

PS : Writing "heartbroken" is a little heartbreaking. But it is also a form of acknowledgement.