Loneliness:Explored

from The Dao of Woodworking by Charles Dalton Telschow

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lyrics

Everyone's afraid of the
lonely

It holds me tighter than you ever did.
I'm starting to talk to it.
I'm realizing we have a lot in common.

We both forgo words and instead just grip each other tighter like starving birds as the shadows slowly creep across the floor

It's like holding a mirror against your chest for company until it b r e a k s .

I hold the loneliness tight because maybe that's all it really wants at the end of the day, too.

I quit cigarettes only to get addicted to a woman, now I'm withdrawing from her smile. Sweating her laughter out, washing away the warmth she left behind.

I don't look at mirrors anymore. The joke is growing old.

The joke is getting pale and hasn't eaten lately. It smokes too much weed and still hasn’t finished that album he keeps saying he is going to write. It's laugh is turning into a whimpering cackle, it dreams of not dreaming at all, tie a knot in the punchline and hang myself with it,

I know the only truly unbreakable laws of this world are

death

and
g
r
a
v
i
t
y
but dammit if I ain't a rebel who wants to try anyway.

So bring me my six shooter and a squint so I can be the hero of this movie

ride off into a perfect sunset where it's never raining.
You can't script raindrops,
they do not care where they fall,
only that they do not
fall alone.

And we all want to share this with someone,
so I'll just watch the storm clouds roll in alone tomorrow, but tonight I hold myself lightly. I do not set sights on my own soul anymore, no more to not allowing warmth in at the risk of remembering you, my greatest strength now is allowing myself to be weak and open to becoming r
a
i
n
f a l l .

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from The Dao of Woodworking, released July 6, 2017

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Charles Dalton Telschow Denver, Colorado

Charles Dalton Telschow is a 23 year old Denver poet and musician. He has competed in the city poetry circuit for several years, traveled to Congress to perform poetry, and was formerly in a metal band. He now finds refuge in writing, playing guitar, and singing. ... more