Inspirational Tease

and in a flash I knew from the gist of the conversation, the only way forward was to roll the coin run it my way words like honey-drips slid below the surface of my stonewalled expression I wanted to believe, to belong again and yet, I realized delusions were only a distant arena from lifetimes imagined and never meant to be limp-wristed solutions would no longer stick pseudo-compassion wrapped around well meaning prods pressing ever deeper inside over used pronouncements boiling along flustered responses I was prepared to be the one to walk with you on those dark days and silent nights side by side, arm in arm when words would be rendered unworthy and silence, king keeping a close watch around your beating heart and fractured smile I set aside my life pushed back my deadlines stepped over my boundaries and lost myself in the interim if I'd only known how could I?