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Portrait

from A Portrait of Grace by Humble Digs

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John, the Good Christian Boy down the block

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i could never tell, each time she walked on through the door
if her body was a spider's thread, or a whisp of white from a cigarette
or a ray of light from when the sun don't set
had to try so hard to tell the fool from flesh

i could never hear, past her syllables and tears
i would follow 'round her dancing lips
watch her drum her fingertips
i only knew her rhythms, and would paint a portrait of her
upon a canvas
in the air between us
the aether gold dust
Freyja find me
worth
your
hold

i could never guess, just what day i'd see her next
Grace runs on a fever's fire
and she dances on a silver wire
and laughs at pleas to pull her down
it's hardly worth the noise to shout

and on the day that she returned
to the sky where she was born
i realized then, i never knew
the ground from which the goddess grew
the scars all up and down her back,
the things she'd love about the men she'd ask
to hold her strong and loose and long
who'd run around and lead her on

and maybe if i cried
all throughout the night
like all the times i swore, i'd love her till i died
i could catch a flight on the undertow
no one else would know, no one else would know
and meet her once again, beyond the bitter end
and stop procuring time, to pat her back and sigh

and maybe all good love is words without intent
maybe all good love is present, better yet-
maybe all good love is open to be shared
but don't pretend that holding on will change you to a man beyond
whatever you have grown to be, before her dancing eyes
cuz i wasted all that time, and i never really tried
and i know love never dies
but i only loved her light

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from A Portrait of Grace, released March 24, 2018

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