Here’s Garnett’s response to Sarah Blake’s prompt in the Found Poetry Review Impromptu series for National Poetry Month. She suggested choosing a song and having its dynamics open the door to a poem. The song Garnett chose is Carole King’s “You’ve got a friend, ” which Garnett sang and read until this poem happened. Perhaps Garth Brooks will be taken by the lyrics and turn them into his next hit! LOL!
Country, western
So it’s a dark day, and a darker night
And the rain’s still coming down
You wanna put down the bottle
but instead you take another swig
And when I call you say you love me
And I hesitate, oh I hesitate
‘Cause it’s hard to believe, so hard to believe
after all that you’ve done, done to me
I wanna say I love you, too, because I do
But I hesitate, oh I hesitate
So I ask, “is it still pourin’? Are the streetlights all on?
Do they shine up the pavement? Ain’t they pretty”?
You take another swig
Then you tell me again you love me
And I wanna say I love you, too, because I do
Still I hesistate, oh I hesitate
till it’s late; time to get off the phone
watch the rain through my tears