What She Kept -

What she kept was a fire escape of a love

Safety net you can only reach from above

And not from the ground

What she left was a mind

What she left behind was something you want but you don’t

But nothing I ever could own

What she kept somehow silhouettes all the things it belies

Situations of obligations of separations of minds

What she left was a mind

What she left behind was more than enough to get by

But just short of coming in time

She bought out all of the slums just when I wasn’t looking

Ignores my history and sells to the gentry and

And displaced the lost

What she kept wasn’t something built just for show

What she kept I would long regret that I found

But never would know

What she left was a mind

What she left behind was shocking but somehow well known

It’s something you want but you don’t

And nothing I ever could own, no