Things Written Down to Cassendre Xavier's Voice

Listen to the song that inspired this poem.

So, this small storm comes on, a prickly tidal wave :
Some
how
her
song
travels to the skin, lower back, ears, lower

and back.

Can feel even as we hear, or we are not hearing until we first feel.
It’s a chill, a warning, a takeover.

How to say -- feel music so much as hear it
without saying what has been said before?

Redemption, Redemption, Redemption, birth rite.

So, this small storm comes on, a prickly tidal wave :
it sounds like with-with, heart stop, with –

it sounds like shhhhhhhhhhh

It sounds like learning, learning, learning, lifting burning.
Willing, willing                                      willing.

shush.

It sounds like looking back, looking forward, looking-

Joy can be mine?

I have learned

I won’t be cruel

I have learned

the path Less Broken, less broken.

What would you do what would you do what would you do what would you do
if I told you:

I am not back

I’m back

I’m not back

I’m back

I'm
not ready not ready not ready
never ready
for pain.