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Working: Volume 2, Number 1 - Issue 5 Spring 2023

Sometimes I Say Yes, Sometimes I Say No​

Tell me you believe me when I say follow your dreams
Don’t go out the window when you could open a door 
Listen to the whispers or they turn themselves to screams 
 
Step outside and feel me beneath the moonlight gleams 
You’ll say that we still have so much yet to explore 
Tell me you believe me when I say follow your dreams 
 
The story of our journey’s written down our heartbreak seams 
We try to pull away, box it up and lock the drawer 
Listen to the whispers or they turn themselves to screams 
 
The wise ones always tell us love alone is what redeems 
Our angels bring us back each time to even out the score 
Tell me you believe me when I say follow your dreams 
 
Not every part of passion’s quite the glory that it seems 
To gather broken pieces after crashing is a chore 
Listen to the whispers or they turn themselves to screams 
 
Chart with me the river, merging of our two souls’ streams 
Why hide our desire or deny that we want more 
Tell me you believe me when I say follow your dreams 
Listen to the whispers or they turn themselves to screams

CAROLE GREENFIELD
grew up in Colombia and lives and teaches in New England. Her work has appeared in Red Dancefloor, The Sow’s Ear, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and Glacial Hills Review, among others.

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