I asked you to snap it.
In case I forget.
Lost in the bedsprings.
Laced with regret.
Wave up the net,
Cut through the air,
Away she may fly—
but the flight will be fair.
The world is so wide,
The turns go on endless.
Decisions thus pend-
until I forget this.
Until edges bend-
but if you can grasp it-
You’ll keep me safe.
But I never asked it.
No baby, what’s fate?
Your fingerprints locking,
Make sure to catch up,
To the second hand’s tocking.
Strike midnight strike luck—
Before memory shrinks.
fades in my head…
turns into a sphinx,
And then settles dead.
With a mandated grimace,
A deep bitten line
That negates the premise.
Awaken the hope that once I’d called mine.
Look, just promise you’ll snap it,
Before I fall blind.
Because past is so past now,
Life moves, we regret,
So to caution a notion
I ask do not quit.
You've captured the motion
Of a middle-school wisher
So make sure to save it—
That crumpled up picture.