You Are a Book

You are a book
someone may take off the shelf.

Know that if
you are taken down and perused,
If your pages are touched
and a finger traces your letters with care,
each page tenderly turned,
eyes glued to each word,
if you are brought close to them
so they can drink in your scent deeply,
and you change them,
and even if they, with love,
appreciate your story with sighs,
they may always, still,
when done,
place you right back on the shelf.


You are s t i l l a beautiful story.


-aq/lesnspired


☄PoetryOutLoud

Burdensome

You need not worry.
Yes, I can walk away.
You will not be bothered.
There is nothing you need say.

When I look at your face
and find emptiness on that day,
I will absolutely turn
and quickly walk away.

1:03

Who are you?
Where is my friend?
The kindness,
The joy in the nearness,
The simple love and ease. 
It has all evaporated.
All that is left
are awkward laughs
and shifted eyes,
complicated energy,
and
        n        T    
      A   x  I a    y.
                   



-aq/lesnspired

Together

Give me your hand 

let us go 

Never will I leave 

you alone. 

We’ll stand the storm

hand in hand 

and stick our bare feet 

in wet sand. 

You’ll play guitar

and I will sing 

And we’ll smile at

whatever life will bring.