Keeping the Paint Chip poetry thing going, because Abby Schleifer inspired me. Check her posts out for cues and her beautiful writing and then play along at home:

All the songs

I ever loved do not

Love me back

They are resolute

Like ice caps despite

My many attempts to

Seduce them over the years

Whether I sing total eclipse

Of the heart or harvest

They all dissipate when

I am done like a fine mist

When the clouds break

In those moments

I see those songs

Unblemished, eternal

And forbidding like

Mountain peaks

My voice will never climb

And yet I still know them

And feel them elevate me

To impossible heights.