i've touched what's good for me and put it back on the shelf,

by Rachel Lynch


I’ve touched what’s good for me, and put it back on the shelf.

I’m a heavy kind of darling, with wings under my woes.

Strength like mine will always take flight,

I am like the mourning dove,

and you are the serpent who can’t see beyond the trees.

I’ve never settled for the surface,

so why should I start with you?