Sincerity Stays At Home Poem by Faith Wood

I'll get into fights with clocks
but these hands can't reach outside the box
Fists form, our stomachs grow knots
and fingers fumble over the phrases we forgot
We realize we're striving to turn bones into gold
It's all the hope we have for growing old
We left all sincerity at home
and I don't want to lose love
I can't bear to lose you my love

Watching it spill across the kitchen floor
and stream right through the cracks of the front door
Never thought I'd see such a mess
Heads so battered, so full of stress
We lie on the pavement, we gave it a try
Blunt but hopeful there's not much else to deny
Sincerity stays at home
because she doesn't want to lose love
Please won't you stay, my love

But can you lose something you've yet to find?
I feel it trapped in the corner of my mind
Like a photograph you've seen, as if you were there
It's all pretend- just act like you care
But eventually love finds a way
A slithering snake tagging the heart in a relay
And sincerity leaves home
because she wants to find real love
Can't we just please find love?