Promise me, if you can

that you won’t go out blazing

like Hemmingway,

she whispered in the darkness

of my thoughts whilst

forever bathing with sweetness and

open minded serenity,

I can cope with you fighting the bear,

I see the sense in wandering off into the great

unknown and the untouchable

but you are no Hemmingway,

you are not that selfish.

 

I thought about it for a while,

In between the tolling of the clock

and agreed, I would never see the sense