Awhile

Break  me no more for awhile.

Even I need, if I don't deserve it, time

to heal;

            surely, time and circumstance 

also hold mercy.

Keep me from looking at the wounds

by which watching does nothing,

the transfiguration coming from within,

unseen until only the scar of memory

holds that story.

                       Break me no more

today or tomorrow or the next day.

Certainly, this can be understood

better than I can say.

                              I don't think it's impossible

for this to be heard, to hear,"Okay.

Alright."

           Break me no more

                                         for awhile.

-Byron Hoot