---
title: inconsistent flicker
description: Poem from Matt Steidle of That's The Breaks, about a light flickering in the eye that you just can't shake.
image: https://broomwatr.com/hubfs/flickering.jpg
---

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# inconsistent flicker

[Matt Steidle](https://broomwatr.com/blog/author/matt-steidle)

 June 20 2024

[Poetry](https://broomwatr.com/blog/tag/poetry)

\[this poem was written spontaneously by Matt Steidle of [Stylie Music Studio](https://styliestudio.com/) and [That's The Breaks](https://thatsthebreaks.net/)\]

I sit I stare and there’s a flicker in the air  
as I turn my head I see this flicker and it distracts me  
the thoughts they wander until that flicker, you see.  
I believe It to be an inconsistent flicker, a trick  
some may say a trick of the eye, but I know better  
its the flicker I see in her eye every time she walks passed me  
and while even though I see it, she walks passed me, she keeps on walking  
and so I turn to face the sun and find it has gone  
and the dusk of time has wrapped me weary   
and its a fuzz of thoughts they wander until that flicker, you see?  
as I once said and say it again its only a flicker of the eye that  
distracts and makes me act the way I do  
and we forgave to give way to a new light with an inconsistent flicker

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