language

I’m awfully afraid that I can’t read
The language of your body with any
Accuracy or fluency

It’s not quite so that it’s illegible,
Rather, it’s written in a dialect
I’m unfamiliar with

And can’t speak

To me

Plainly
Please

Instead of having me guess at these
Nuances, those subtleties

Will be the death of me!
It seems

I cannot do anything correctly
Anymore

I don’t even know if it is frightfully
Hot or terribly cold

All I know for sure
is my soul feels old