Author: Candid Corvid Productions

If I’m a fool, then I’m a fool – who’s in love.

—

(Content concept play)

What causes the pulse to pound
Beyond normal range of flattery?

What steals one’s breath in passing
As if it’s the source of all breathing?

What causes a heart to crave
Certain perfect imperfections?

What freezes where once brave
Because means the world to me?

A phrase past hung upon shoulders of others, as if trying to match pictures to frame – yet not quite felt the same as only once before, and this time irrefutable.

She sat there, eyes downcast, afraid to look at him directly for fear that she might see confirmation that it was all just a game, afterall – a ruse to call her out from hiding and make fun of her heart’s yearning vulnerability.

Hands clasping her fingers tightly on top of her lap as they ached to reach out to touch his face and extend arms to hold him, her eyes burned with tears as they rebelled at her refusal to at last gaze into his own.

—-

(Title of multiple meanings)

I remember being at my grandparent’s home
Always a place of safety away from main society

Yet planted in the very heart of prime social elitism
Only just one door away by grandpa playing piano

And when I returned as a teen after he had passed
The place felt the same but much more empty

I could have stayed there forever and would have
Had my grandmother left the house in will to me

But my uncle and his family eventually took over
All properties and moved her with them for caretaking

I got a small funding to begin my own life later
Her parting gift used to spread wings for flying

She couldn’t pretend anymore
Thus missed opening presents

But she would have pretended
Had she’d known they wanted

But she hadn’t
So she didn’t

Then later
Found out

She felt trapped as if it was
How she had always feared

When you tell the truth and they
Told you this would drive away

Everyone and everything wanted
Going off into opposite directions

Only this time it wasn’t the same
Even though some ways lagged

Because her family responded
And he somewhere considered