Double Take Poem by Maya Hanson

Your convoluted logic can

Throw me
off
my feet.

Whisper the silence of the river
in my dreams.

But if I begin to break a promise you

Push me
off
the cliff.

You're controlling the wings that guide us,
make them crash into that sea.

We're crawling through a slit in the sky and

Ending
all
these lives.

But no, it's just a soul, a few, a hundred,
miles to go, it's the least they can do.

My shadow shivers in your wind but

The echo
haunts
me through.

A hopeless battle I'll never win, maybe
this time you'll come home.

Running through breezes, ecstatic, then you explode

Gives me
a
double take.