Damn If I Ain’t Gonna Worry Anyway

I know they need neither my help
Nor my sympathy
There’s no one I’ve ever known
With that level of emotional
Intelligence
And management
Rendering my foolish concern
Useless
And irrelevant

But

Damn if I ain’t gonna worry anyway
Because as powerful as they are
No one is invincible
And for someone with that much love
That needs a place to go
It really needs to go 

Somewhere

Anywhere

Anywhere
That’s not trapped until it’s pressing outwards
Through the crevices in their heart

They will logic themselves 
Out of their own mind
If they decide that’s what’s best 
But that overflowing love 
Splashing around their feet
It can’t really stay there
Whether they mean it to or not
For if it stays
I fear

I fear

I fear
I fear
It will burn them 

And burn them again 

While I watch 

But they don’t need my help
So in my worrying
Wishing for a bucket of soothing water
Am I not so horribly

Arrogant

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April 22 – 23, 2025