These Aren’t My Shoes

So

I Must Be Dreaming Backwards

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Mimi Wolske – Mona Arizona™

Best foot forward every time

For who will hide the cracks

Of the full and leaky vessel

No one has to see them

I can deftly pretend

Reason fear away again

For who will lover me

In someone else’s shoes

Like rejection’s debris

Of works to be satisfied

Doing my best with

Difficult requests and

Struggling with resign while

Living on a life of courage

For who will lover me

In someone else’s shoes

It’s not pride, it’s poetic dignity

A free-license thread

Sewing me up inside

What profits the dreamer

An actress for the rent living

On hope that’s not been spent

For who will lover me

In someone else’s shoes

I’m no mere woman

Drowning while trying to

Kiss the moon in the river

It’ not that much to give

So consider it a plank

To bridge this gap to me

For who will lover me

In someone else’s shoes

Illegal, immoral, or fattening

These are where the things

I love best can be found

Like a babe fallen from a star

Sliding to the mother moon

I must be dreaming backwards

And who will lover me

In someone else’s shoes