By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
A brief address to an uncertain beloved where abandonment and lack of love are answered by the insistence that the connection still matters.
The poem's plainness is part of its pressure: it names uncertainty, absence, wounded waiting, and the feeling of being left behind, then answers with a small communal hope that the speaker and addressee still shine.
'A song' is a short typed address to someone the speaker cannot read: 'Clear like I take you to be be / Unsure is probably the way you are'. It moves through waiting and hurt ('Waited and wounded we find') and a sense of being left by 'Those without love' who think 'There leaving us behind', then closes after a gap with 'New were all, sugest we shine'.
The poem sets clarity against uncertainty and loss against a stubborn shared hope, with the pronouns shifting from 'I' and 'you' to 'we' and 'us'. Its inverted syntax and source spellings such as 'be be', 'There' and 'sugest' give it a halting, spoken quality, and the separated final line works as a quiet answer to the complaint before it.