Yes Indeedy

Intrepid
Without my usual fear
I attack this new thing
This...
Was is it called?
Is it life?
Is it love?
Is it faith I fight to instill?

Let us bring in this newness
As one
Let us ring in this newness
And sum up our losses and wins
Tallies of a time now lost
Tallies of a life lived
In immediacy

This is my now
Just as then was
And I am offering myself
A new promise
A new me
Intrepid and strong
Beyond what I have heretofore allowed

Such promise, such potential
But you seem to have changed your mind
Without so much as an utterance
Goodbye
Take care
You will find what you seek
I am not him
I hope you are not wounded by this shift

Well well well
This should be no surprise
It turns out I am braver than you
Turns out you'll run and hide
Rather than stand and face
Yourself and me
Rather than stand and state
This incompatibility
It turns out you're the mouse
And I the man
I am the poet
And you the sham

Round and round
I am laughing again
Shaking my head and rolling my eyes
As this course of events quickly ceases to surprise
I recognize this
This usual thing that has occurred

So we are back to square one
So I am back to the square
The root of why I play these games
The root sans the radical notion
That there was possibly more here than emotion
Commotion and havoc in the wake of wanting more

I still lack that compass, but I have other tools
No longer just a pad and pen
There are new rules
I've a fancy, graphing calculator
It's my secret weapon, being saved for later
One shot use, I will not waste it
Being saved for the right equation