The Lilt
I miss the lilt…
There's a balance in nature, denial or not
And when we try to divorce ourselves from it
We are ignoring the hole that opens there
Which has to be filled by something…
And we're not always careful about what fills it
It's unnatural, this oversight
And the breach it creates is something we can't fathom
Nagging there, underneath it all
There's a rule to measure everything
The breadth, the depth, the height, the length
Hardness, moisture, pressure, temperature
Calculating age
But there's no rule for this
Or maybe… it's life
I miss a lot of things
I miss commas, periods, dashes, double letters in the editing of life
But more than anything… I miss the lilt
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