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My Love, She Approaches

from Failed Novels by Sam Steffen

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My Love, She Approaches copyright sam steffen 2014

Yonder she walks overtop of the rocks,
and every so often she thoughtfully stops
To untie her shoes, and to pull off her socks
Her beauty abounds beyond measure; I cannot handle the pressure
For even if somehow I
Could but capture her eye
And only to tell her, “I’m sorry—goodbye,”
There’d still be no way
for to stand or to stay
For I’d not know what name by
which she goes to address her

She carries her clothes and the wind her hair blows
And the ocean beside her it ebbs and it flows
Erasing her footprints and kissing her toes
As she tenderly wades through the mosses; she don’t know the pain that she causes
For even if I was sure
Of the sly conjecture
That what I feel for her is love, plain and pure
I’d still have to start
With a half-broken heart
That hopes, bears, believes and endures
Despite how all of its gains become losses

Beneath the salt-waves, her fair body she bathes
And the seagulls above her observe her charades
Strongly she swims, to dive deeply, she saves
In her lungs, all the air she can gather; that it won’t last for long doesn’t matter
For even if I could change
Or only just rearrange
The conditions by which I’m made free in my chains
She still would beseech
Me and be out of reach
Of the arms that when she was in range
Could’ve swore that they had her

From the watery deep she sings me to sleep
And slowly become I her question to keep
In my dreams she accosts me and asks me to speak
From inside the bounds of her clutches, she tells me to walk without crutches
And tho I’m to blame
For remaining the same
Despite and because of the size of the pain
She still won’t relent
Won’t requite or resent
And you can’t quite prevent how insane
She turns everyone that she touches

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from Failed Novels, released November 3, 2014

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Sam Steffen Boise, Idaho

Sam Steffen is a Pennsylvania-bred, Boise-based singer-songwriter whose songs are the torch-wood for a new generation of folk music that has learned from the best stuff in the tradition and aims in spite of everything to keep the human spirit alive and kicking. A versatile musician and skilled finger-picker, Sam is at heart a story-teller, and a prolific one. ... more

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