Résumé

                  for Emily Ramirez

I live like one mistake won’t last forever.

   I give my heart and then resent the taker.

I sail like there’s no anchor I can’t sever.

   When forms ask my profession, I write “faker.”

I chase the ones who do not know I love them.

   I run from every willing heart I see.

My curve balls are so wild, no one can glove them.

   My secret’s smaller than my mystery.

The only game I play is solitaire,

   The only peace I find is when I lose.

It’s not that I’m so calm—I just don’t care—

   And only panic when I have to choose—

      And never fail, in all my fro- and to-ing,

      To find the straightest road to my undoing.

 

Copyright 2016 Matthew J Wells