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Open Poetry #25

What is it?

luvlorn322
Junior Member

since 2002-10-28

Posts 43

0 posted 2003-04-04 05:08 PM

What is it, that troubles you
like a fist of clouds with grey trim?
I look at you, so overtaken by this, indelible arm span the sky holds
And wonder
what it would cost to put you up for the night
if i had that much strength in my raised arms and a sheet of aluminum
to stand over your sleeping body like a roof.

What is it, baby,
that moves your heart
like a feather to the left
but, like a paperweight to me?
Is it, spoken or is it implied,
that mobile device
that might ease some of the strain from my back
before you tell me to stop, pushing so hard?
What is it, that you want?

I'm sitting here like a raation
even as i scour for my own inner peace,
just so you can have the allowance
when we speak.
When you are troubled,
i am raking my nails into my shirt like a steel casket
for the right words.
When you seem to be asking, you are merely calling from your own crypt
where answers are not audible.
I keep reaching from my headstone to your murmor, wanting to give you the life that you deserve, but there is something in my way.
What is it?

"Love humiliates you, hatred cradles you"~White Oleander

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2003-04-04 05:58 PM

Nice writing...enjoyed...James

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2003-04-04 06:17 PM

Intense. Poignant, a personal quest for an elusive answer that may never materialize.
Well done, luvlorn.

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