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The Person You Are as a Poet

from Unweaving The Apocalypse by The John Whites

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The person you are as a poet
is not who you are as a lover
Gentle vibrations that hover
Around your waist
Like a cork on a lake

Under Indian earthquakes
in Summer
Shattered the hat trick that shuttered
Even the bravest hunters
Mademoiselle
Was it too hard to tell?

I had a dream
That you were with me
Fighting off demons
Out of our sleep
Oh, what could it mean?
As it plays on repeat
Are we meant to be?
or was it just a dream
The person you are as a poet
Is not who you are as lover
so I must go find another
How long can I wait for
The chains you won't break


Did they teach you that love is to fear?
As your staring right in the mirror
the person you are disappears
Your maximum stays
got you counting the days

I had a dream
that you were with me
fighting off demons
out of our sleep
Oh, what could it mean?
As it plays on repeat
Are we meant to be?
or was it just a dream

I'm Caught in a whirlwind our blew
Deep at night
I tell the whole World that I love you
It’s only right
To sing every day to be near you
What was it you said about love
that it shouldn't be said, well its said now

And I do

The person you are as a poet
Is not who you are as a lover
You forgot your guard/God for a moment
Now you're hiding away
locked up tight as a safe

While the Fire Flies flare by the compost
Spelling out Letters To come Home
They Say Don't waste today for tomorrow
With no steps to trace
Don't you see what's at as stake

The sound that you made as I entered
When I Kissed your soul at the center
Deep in the harshest of winters
Counting the days
til I'm touching your face

Like a hummingbird lost in the flutter
Telling the tide to go under
Shot it so didn't suffer served on a plate you unconsciously ate

The person you are a poet Is not who you are as a lover
Searching so hard for the right Words
So much to say, Darling don't run away

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from Unweaving The Apocalypse, released December 31, 2012

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A hurricane of restless songwriting energy, John White is quietly one of America’s best and most prolific songwriters and the namesake of the ever-amorphous Reno rock band The John Whites.
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