Slip Parry

Slip Parry I don't have to understand the punch To move Every look can plant a seed Every silence changes shape I can feel the room go sideways Three damn seconds before my face Something flickers under language Something shifts beneath the skin Mind comes running with a clipboard Body's already leaning in I used to stop and solve it Find the reason, find the source Turn a tremor into evidence Before I changed my course Fuck the paperwork Slip, I don't need the meaning Parry, I don't need the proof My body doesn't need a thesis To move me half an inch Slip, without disappearing Parry, without making you wrong I can move before I understand And understand when it comes (Too close) Slip (Too much) Parry Still here I confused awareness with assignment Thought noticing meant take it in Every twitch became my business Every weather touched my skin I could feel your little pressure Then become it trying to know I kept standing where it landed Just to study where it'd go But recognition isn't duty And perception isn't debt I can honor what I noticed Without knowing what it meant Notice Don't inherit Feel Don't become Move Don't prosecute Meaning can come When meaning comes Maybe boundaries aren't walls Maybe boundaries have knees Maybe wisdom isn't standing still Until the mind agrees Maybe I can leave the doorway Before I know what entered wrong Maybe knowing comes tomorrow And moving now Still counts Here's what took me fifty-one years I don't have to make you wrong To move away from you I don't have to know What something means To know what it does Inside me And I don't have to abandon myself While I wait To understand Slip, I don't need the meaning Parry, I don't need the proof My body doesn't need a thesis To move me half an inch Slip, and remain completely here Parry, let the whole world pass I don't have to catch a thing Just because I felt it land Slip, without abandoning you Parry, without abandoning me I can move before I understand And still be Exactly where I need to be Something moved I moved Meaning arrived later Just right