Just an Arm’s Distance

Covers on, too hot

Windows open, too cold

Volume a notch up, too loud

One down, too down

 

So then a middle ground-

Stick out a leg

Open the window just a crack

Muster up all your willpower, you lazy

and slide that volume bar to the middle ground

 

Too honest, too brutal

Too fake, too disgusting

Too close, too painful

Too distant, too lonely

 

So then an arm’s distance-

Stick out an arm

Keep an arm’s distance

and the damage is only that arm’s distance

 

Just an arm’s distance-

What I use to keep myself from getting hurt