Joining Spells

Joining Spells

Once paid to write the spells of joining.
Now do commence to write my own spells.
Not spells of joining in that manner,
in the manner of some partners
joining up with one another
in a business endeavor,
but the joining I would share with you.

If I write them, two outcomes may result:
one, that when you come to me and would endeavor
to explore with me, then I will give you
these words written to you in anticipation.
Yes, a secret spell that worked!

But if you don’t,
don’t know that I will approach you once again,
or if I did, it would be later,
at a time when it would be less hurried.

What was it that she wrote,
she said? I hang on every word
that one may give me apprehension
regarding her intentions.

If you don’t come to me,
I must accept it because
what can I do?
You can’t make a person love you.

All I can do is keep writing spells.
More words written that won’t be read
by anyone except the spirits
that do linger by my shoulder.
They can’t read my mind
but they hunger for the stories
and they read the words I write them.
By now they know me well and
would anticipate my writing.
When I fall silent, they do recognize
that they must make a choice.
No time for hearing anymore,
but now for reading.
When they would see me leaving,
a decision they must make.
Would they come with me
hoping to hear the few words I might speak?
Or do they stay and read them,
but only those that are written on this one page.
For the spirits can’t move matter,
they can’t even turn a page,
and so their reading always incomplete,
always wanting for the finish,
and the beginning, and eventually they don’t bother.