5). Start

Start out active role through life and conflict and who's deterrence,
And gradually change what you're handing back and change your life;
The master of ongoing change and acceptance
Has a cold side, in retrospect,
Over things not interpersonal.

We took out,
If anything,
We didn't add in.

Be rejected.
False acceptance.
I've never seen it happen.

What it brings in,
No opinion
By extraction,

What you expect;
You can't talk to anyone,
Even if you identify.


"Start," poem five of "Lettersongs," unpublished work © 2008, Lisa Page Weil. 
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