Rae didn't barter

Awfully polite
Reached for dynamic
fingers almost touched
gesture almost too much
Rae didn't barter

Hopelessly slap happy
barely balanced on the earth
wiggly wobbly pinch of charm
genuine eye to eye one hand on your arm
He didn't negotiate

Caught between heart's quest and chemical grace
funny expressions pressing their way out of his face
like he was selling something worth buying
Attempting to cook something good looking out of his crooked smile
Rae wasn't taking

Ah ambition is a well loved tree
as tree huggers who care little for nature must agree
for so many twigs and branches to follow
When the grin doesn't win inside those trunks that have become hollow
That fish got away Rae