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Friday, March 27, 2009

Poetic License

As I have said many times before, this is my blog and I may do on it what I please.  Hence I present to you a fairly long sort of "poem", which has absolutely no structure whatsoever, and while writing it I couldn't seem to draw any nice, poetic words or phrases out of myself, so it sounds like plain English to me.  I also cannot think of anything to call it, so I am leaving it untitled:


Are you forever distant?
Have we become strangers?
Once so close...
But what is it that I long for?
I long for the closeness
Of one heart to another
Of two lives entwined
The deepest intimacy imagined
But do I really want it from you?
I think it is because we really were
Each other's exclusive sharers of life
That I cannot let what could have been go
Even if I know we aren't going the same way.
I wonder if I could ever love any
As much as I cared for you
When I was sure we wouldn't separate
And all my dreams would come true.
Why is it that I hold onto that emotion?
I thought I had lost it.  
I am better without it.
You waltz in and I can't get you to go out
You are at my side for a moment
But I clasp onto you and you stay there for weeks
On my heart which seemed complete beforehand.
So now - how will I know whom I really love
And whom I only want to love?
Are our paths in life perpendicular?
Meeting you was only our lives intersecting
I must continue on; I cannot go back
You cannot go back
If we go back, we get nowhere
And I refuse to live my life going around a traffic circle!
You go your way, I'll go mine
We'll drift further away
I never held your hand nor your heart
Yet something is hard to let go.
And how could you have been holding some part of me
All the while I didn't know?
Seeing the bright, beaming light of matrimony
Staring me straight in my face
I often to do not remember my present youth.
Yet even in the short time of our acquaintance
I have changed and grown so much.
There is something about the time
Since the day I first saw you
That brought magic in my life
And I saw in front of my dreams-
Both those entertained and whose which entertained-
Reality bestowed upon me things I believed
Were to forever remain my fantasies.
Also my cold and blind heart has warmed
And I can see now, though not as clearly as I might.
Are you the influence? Or merely an association
Only along for a ride as I stand in the meadow
And let the strong breeze of disestablishment 
Conquer me?
You are there, and you are gone.
Someday someone will be there and he will never leave.
He is not you, as I had naively hoped so intensely.
Hope can be so repulsive.
Have I not yet learned it must be avoided at all costs?

4 comments:

Abigail said...

*feels like crying*

Jessica said...

Good crying or bad crying...?

Abigail said...

Sad crying...

N said...

*sigh* I like that.

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