Between The Lines
HeungSoon Shortslet me open up
right before your eyes
like an unbound book cradled in your hands;
laden with secrets and treasures trapped between the lines
let me tell a tale
of lingering hopes quenched and cold;
of hurting dreams that hesitate and hide
and come undone before they can rise up to be named
let me start a verse
in another world, another time unfurled,
where you stay close – no dawn, no doubt, no guilt –
where careless truths lift songs in my heart
let the spoken words
escape from my lips
with their baggage strapped to frayed wings,
so you may watch them disperse from me like broken down ghosts
let me open up 'fore you,
bare it all before your eyes,
so you may study the shadows and cobwebs
and release the eager fireflies nesting along my spine
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