Any Other Definition

Any other word

By any other name

Within any other definition

Would scare me less right now

Than fear. Fear when the stars don't align

And I'm not on time and I break the rules and step out

Over the chalked lines into the void of things goodbyed.

Starred, starring, as in becoming a solar entity, as in shining, as in on fire.

Proses, as in the sweet-smelling bloodred pretty ones that prickle when you hold them

Too tighly, to close, too detemined to do something that you don't even want to do.

Reverse, as in another poem, another poem, backwards in the chaos released

But so promising. So much can still be saved that we can't even dream.

Songless as in no more lyric blood to spill onto digital blanks.

 

If I let my hurricane inventory

Loose on the dictionary, I wonder if fear

Would disappear? But even a storm can't be that strong

To blow away my very foundations of thought, unless I was wrong

About the deep-set and the waves and there are still things to be saved

 

And the silence can be over

Silents, as in quiets, as in the ones who don't talk

Because there are so many things to say

And so many of them are just

Incorrect, by all

Dictionaries'

Standards.

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