Frozen, White, Quiet and Still

I hide from you like snow on the north side of a hill

Frozen, white, quiet and still.

Fearing that in your presence you will cause me to melt

Or say how I felt

How I felt about what?

Don’t say that I did….

I did feel

Not real. Not really real

But I know that I really should be on your side

Out in the open unable to hide

But will I be able to see the dark side of your sun

Or will I be the only one

To shift and change

It is hard for me to move

And the sun to show its backside

Now that’s really unreal

Shifting snow and reversing sun

How can I express my garbled mind at this junction?

Between inability and function

You don’t cause my inability to relate to this hell

Yet you cause me to function as well

You constantly seem to confuse me

Is there some intent to abuse me?

The sun doesn’t heat me too fast

I want this melting feeling to last

I hide a little you hide a little and what do we see

A little of you and me

I tell a great deal you tell a great deal and what can this be

No big deal certainly

For our souls long for the time when our knees knock, our tongues quiver and our hands shake

“To ask if there is some mistake”

To stop by woods and relate

To the deep

 

2-8-1980

Revised 3-14-16