Old dilemma swooping down from the rafters and attacking me.
I've got a word of interesting news for you, you mugging beast.
You're the stain of a shadow on the wall facing a setting sun.
A disintegrating shaking hand in spasm reaching up the rungs.

You'll never catch my ankles.
A bird has told me this today.
A bird who's warming your same corner.
Wing blasting halcyon gusts you'll never know.

Say
what you want to say:
Days have taken of mine what even dreams cannot completely give.
I'll never really notice or control this wind.
I'll never grasp how fantastically we live.
Since you say, then I'll say:
No.

Emotional geosynchronous goddess pulling puppet strings.
Each time the world shrinks you're saving me from being meat.
Casual human casualty falling down dead in cyber war.
Sinking in depression's constantly connected disconnected *****.

I'll never catch your disease.
The earth has told me this today.
Earth who's your eternal mourner.
Keeping for you forever seeds you won't sow.
You'll never catch my ankles.
A bird has told me this today.
A bird who's warming your same corner.
Wing blasting halcyon gusts you'll never know.

Say
what you want to say.
You're free to say so and since you say so
I'll say what I want,
say,
No.

Maybe you were close, but not nearly close enough.