Carl Newlen

I Open My Heart

- May 3, 2010, 3:18 pm | Notes To Read While Falling

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I open my heart

(because I didn`t know what you feared
I feared everything - thought `a cold swift river
emptying into nothing` -too afraid to lose
you as you were and I as I am

because it felt like endlessness
when I looked at you last, I thought `bury
these notes in a box in the earth and turn away`
- remember you as you were, I as I am

because now I know, and like the past
we are not ending - we ended, so forget
I said forever, then begged for a moment -
but oh how it was! - you as you were with me as I am

because I don`t know what to feel
this far from your life - through the window
I watch that tree the wind keeps batting around -
so worn out and still I am far from anything)

and let you go.

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