Akróstichis #5: Despite lead paint, we are as a matchless Hotere

Instead of wondering

Perhaps, just perhaps, it would be better to come clean:

Me, you, all that pretending

Each of us living in this ‘between the lines’ canto

Judicious though we deem it to be it

Overlaps into our singular raw reality when we

Hold tight to each other in moments of transcendent tribulation

Don’t get me wrong

I’m not complaining

Please don’t change anything

For my sake (now that’s the truth)

Next time I get your text will be

Just when I’m thinking we’ve gone from the track for good

My heart will pound and my grey world will explode with colour

My soul will see with a clarity reserved especially for you

Faced with that – five cycles so far round the sun –

Sense on layered sense says, ‘if only the good die young, we’ll outlast everyone.’

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