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Bend and Soften
Brains, Advocates, vacations Hearts that mend When we bend and soften Get to the loft or you’ll be lost Hold on fast and don’t be chaste The time is now for single wow Make your vow and allow This who wish to be a dish And insist on a new creation A stair step to higher ground That will turn your frown With utmost care and to be fair You may need another lair Or just six more layers Blocks and chains and thistle To wet your glorious whistle With steep brewed coffee And comfort sweet heath toffee Get the walls up. The foundation is laid. The colors in spade…
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Quick assignment:
Brains Brains, grey matter French bread crusty crunch Chain links of a rusted metal fence Armed and ready forces Take over the conversation. An interruption, a pause A slight second of rest. She lays quietly to contemplate What staying will do Cost the Mission. Red and orange and a slight tinge Of blue Remain on her fingers As she crosses the divide Plunging into unknown territory Where are the alley cats? Will the guard dog chase? Can she keep running? A tree, tall and round Sturdy with stable logic Asks the question Would it hurt to stay? The leaves change and drop Landscape will be the same And yet not.
