Recovery

Dealing with rejection, a typical topic for a poem

Slow, soft and sweet

guitar strings soothing

lonely stomach aches

in crowds of isolating strings

my center of balancing being

recovered from the usual rejection

of hope and expectations

caught in thoughts like sticky webs.

 

Recover

like social situations

without thoughts

of empty insides

and regretted smiling  eyes,

but conscious skin cells

and flames of old ways,

as her hand lingers

inside finger tips

touching gentle shoulder blades.

 

Tolerant optimism with another,

 the four-year thought,

 the anxious contemplation

ready for release

and taken higher happiness,

another climb with no peak.