Letters They’ll Never Read

(February 1, 2023)

Just fine sitting in the in-between 

At peace with the state of unknowing

Writing letters they will never see

This knowledge brings you practical ease

Frank words you know they’ll never read

Freedom to write in full honesty

And these the ones you let your heart cling

With no chance of failure or dying thing

No other involved, affecting dreams

You alone, power to tip feelings

Snap of the finger, heart is retrieved

Dropping all trace of affectionate glee

Or, if wishes desire to be,

Love held for stubborn eternity

Unrequited love, alright with thee

They, no knowledge, like took no seed

And so, just a past of imagining

You move back on to reality

Snap of the finger, awoke from the sleep

But still you slip in and out of the dream