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Open Poetry #50

Stranded in a Doorway

soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

0 posted 2020-10-28 08:08 AM

Stranded in a Doorway

I'll pick you up and take you out
and let you down with just a shred of doubt
I'm stranded in a doorway
trying to think of everything I can't do without

The show starts at 7 PM
a peek inside my head every now and then
I'm stranded in a doorway
my insides are hollow, it's just dust and rain

On my kitchen table
there's crumpled list of all I can be
if I'm willing and able
but of all these demons overtaking me
I'll wish you were the one to set me free

Where the hell am I going
what has led me here
your heart is showing
and I'm counting on mine to reappear

Collecting my thoughts in a doorway
in love there is nothing I can do without
walking through another doorway
leaving behind this dust and rain and doubt

Lights up at the curtain call
a series of motions relive the fall
of a fool once framed by the doorway
now there's just footsteps in the hall

And with all these angels overtaking you
I hope you know I'm sorry, I know not what I do
I want you to know I'm sorry, I'm a man in search of a clue

"It's never over, she is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever" -Jeff Buckley

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

1 posted 2020-10-28 08:06 PM

"Where the hell am I going
what has led me here
your heart is showing
and I'm counting on mine to reappear"

This really struck in a deep place. To be honest I think see a man I know in this. Enjoyed!

"I know this love will tear me to pieces
I know his hands will dig up my secrets"

Meg Myers

Forlorn Angel
Member
Posts 143

2 posted 2020-10-29 02:01 PM

Really liked this. It drew me in. The doorway is cut out for whats waiting for you. Fear nothing and become the wall or walk through that door fearless. I felt something familiar about your poem. Too many slammed doors and thick walls you need a bridge.

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