Strong and sturdy, like a well-believed lie. Your arms stretch out grasping for some kind of truth. What has your face seen? So weathered and creased. I wish I could fall into you. Put my feet in the earth. Grow as strong in my convictions as you do to withstand time.
Is it crazy to want your strength? Can I put my hands on your roughness and myself become rough? I want my limbs to bear the weight that yours do. I want them to stay strong through never ending change.
Is it crazy to want your strength? A strength so rawly beautiful and intense that nothing short of death could diminish it?
I want to learn your unspoken lessons. I want to sit and listen to the wind whisper your secrets. I want to hold a lifetime of experience under one stern mask. I want to be strong and sturdy. Like a well-believed lie.
I wrote this while I was sitting in an empty chapel-like room at my highschool. There is this very impressive tree right out the window I had been staring at, and this just came to me.