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Warming up to a Stranger
Tread lightly in this cold shadow
trust with risk of malice aforethought
from frozen oceans deep, to thin ice of shores shallow
treacheries are seeped into perilous waters which dangers are fraught
enter the iris of this still stare the wise do not
so damaged is the glacial calm, on approach whipping winds lash for blood
it bleeds from the warmth it has been shown
treat it with all the prejudged guilt of a ruining flood
if you cannot just avoid it, and leave it alone.
Published 25th Sep 2018
Author's Note
Trust should be earned. Hard won even. Some people just don't deserve to have it based on a good first impression and a lack of knowledge of their past. I wish I could say I didn't feel as though I were one of those people. I have guilt, and shame, and remorse that I carry for pain that I have caused. I cannot let you get too close to me until I am the master of myself and won't hurt someone that way again. I'm sorry.
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Love the Elizabethan feel of this ... like the phrasing in the fifth line ... potent truth ... elegantly written ... my poet ...
27th Sep 2018 1:45pm
I don't have much in depth to say, just a simple thank you. Your words are kind and your observations do me more justice than I may deserve. So thank you for your time.
