Thursday, October 31, 2019

The heart of the matter (Day 1016)


someone who cares 

less about rainy days 

and old films would be

—the heart of the matter 

is this    is me   asking

if you wanted to 

would you know? 

would I? 

or are we a week of Sundays   

slow and easy 

and maybe (some day) as sweet 

as that feeling you get 

when they dim the lights 

and you are on the verge

waiting   thinking   please

leave me tonight 

so I might breathe   or leave 

tomorrow if you can   because 

some day is one day too late   

and   before you know it   

they will raise the lights again


(c) 2019, by Hannah Six

Image: Charles Hermans, Bal Masqué (1880), 

oil on canvas, via Wikimedia Commons

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