Step Lightly

[DancingBarefoot]

Step lightly when you walk on me
Because I'm not ready for the hurt
I never quite learned how to sleep on my stomach,
Instead I lie patiently with my underbelly exposed,
Waiting for the inevitable crush
When the sole of your boot slowly presses the air from my lungs.
I hope I gave you the extra lift you needed
To take you upward and out of this place.
Don't look back at the muddy footprint you left,
Eventually it will match the others, now dried and cracked.
I'll still be here when the next one comes around.
I never quite learned how to stand up.




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**Still looking for the
face I had before the
world was made....**

**Work like you don't
need money, love like
you've never been hurt,
and dance like no
one's watching.**

 

[zooropamanda]

wow..another great one

 

[foray]

I've never felt that way before, maybe only once when a jerk two-timed me while I was still very much in love with him. Anyway, I hope your doormat days are over. I don't mean that in a bad tone, kay?

foray

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"Oh, I hate to see cows playing tag. Makes you think the hamburger you're eating may have been playing kiss-and-run the day before." --The (thoughtful) Edge

 

[BabyGrace]

that was really good

Don't look back at the muddy footprint you left,
Eventually it will match the others, now cracked and dried.

I know what you mean

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Everyone argues, then we do what I say.
-Bono

 

[popkidu2]

whoa.......

good stuff.

 

[DancingBarefoot]

hee hee, foray. Luckily, this one isn't really about me. I suppose there have been times where I've felt a little bit like a push-over. But this is mostly an exaggeration on that moment of vulnerability. Thanks for caring, though!

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**Still looking for the
face I had before the
world was made....**

**Work like you don't
need money, love like
you've never been hurt,
and dance like no
one's watching.**

 

[scatteroflight]

Do you know Yeats's "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"?

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

Yeats had a terrible time with his relationships but in my opinion he was probably the greatest poet of all time...and also Irish, coincidentally.

 

[DancingBarefoot]

No, I wasn't familiar with that one. I'll have to look it up. Thanks, scatteroflight!



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**Still looking for the
face I had before the
world was made....**

**Work like you don't
need money, love like
you've never been hurt,
and dance like no
one's watching.**