"No Expectations"

A song by the Rolling Stones

It starts with slow strummed chords
—and a sliding steel line
whining over them.

Between each twang,
an eerie laughing stream
flashes over stones.

A somber see-saw rhyme
gliding over the steel line
laments your leaving here.

The flashing stream
grows into piano notes
that sparkle over the stones.

You’ve got no
expectations
to pass…through here…again.

And a last twang
hangs in the air
like a sigh.



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