Crying At The Window, I See You There

 

Crying at the window, I see you there. 
Lifting hand in gesture of removal, 
taking sight from eyes. 
Seeing nothing but the tumbled 
heart wrapped in dark glasses. 
They shield your focus, cover 
you in mirrored attention. 
I feel your thoughts beating 
like webs on a ceiling. 
They ask me to never go away. 
So I shall always love you, 
even when there are tears. 
I shall always protect you, 
wrap you in varying shadows 
of perception. Teaching you 
that some daddys' never leave 
you behind. Distance is illusion. 
A story that ravels untold without 
beginning or ending. A taste of 
other visions, other rubber stamps 
that leave no clear imprint on the 
mind. Jangled nerves that jumble 
the ripped paper like stencilled 
hate upon the hands. You will 
need me to be strong for you. 
Lifting arms like steel shoulders 
upon the shifting world that 
surrounds but won't reach in. 
Our minds shelter the same longing. 
Stability in the pursuit of chaos. 
Crying at the window, I see you there. 
Scared faces pressed like 
idols into the mumbled sentences 
of misconceptions. We will 
survive this, my children. 
We will grow like weeds 
between the cracks of a sidewalk. 
 
 
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CRYING AT THE WINDOW

Great poem....I enjoy reading your work...You deal with real life, and it's problems....