Withhold - Fractures

Time for reason

Calm and calculate

Something’s out of reach

Something’s out of place

Search for feeling

Find the right words to replace

Not everything has a meaning

Not everything can be feigned

Cheeks are stretched abroad

Form the shape: a crooked smile

Only contact to relate

To replace what’s lost inside

It forms in the contact

It needs to be told

I’m all out of context

I’m stuck in one mode

It forms in the contact

Don’t mean to withhold

It’s something so complex

Something unknown

Collect the pieces that I’ve found

Assemble a structure to house them in

This forced perspective will dissolve

Resembles starch and emptiness

Concentrate, calm the senses

Pause for impact, pause to figure out

Collate all emotion, drop defences

Find the problem

No, can’t force it out

Can’t find reaction

Can’t feel a thing