stepping out
i lived happily unaware
until i happened
to look up something caught my eye
on the playground the older kids
the sixth graders
i stepped out of myself
out of my second-grade obliviousness
i realized
i have a long way to go
since that moment i have been self-aware
mindful
and i curse that mindfulness
longing to return to blissful oblivion
leaving mindfulness to those with a taste for it
~
there was more to it the way i looked at
and felt
about mary ann
that was a different kind of
stepping out
the way she caught my eye even then
it came slowly the obliviousness
obscured it
until it didn't becoming matter of fact
until later when lynn and mary ann
became a taunt
little did they know how i lived for those words
musical as they were
to my ears
Poetry by one trick pony
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Written on 2024-07-03 at 18:04
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