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CSKpoet
Senior Member

since 2002-07-12

Posts 845
Island in Paradise

0 posted 2002-08-17 11:18 PM

How important must he be
for me to admit I love him?

If I memorize the lines of his face,
or muss his hair,
or step on his toes,
will I begin to love him less
than how he comes to me,
threadbare and weather beaten,
in utter vulnerability?

Would loving him less bring me home,
or is my home with that
tender moment of surrender
his eyes will never see...
the look I allow myself in darkness
or between shadows of changing light,
swept up in forevers
no one would ever make me admit
existed?

If I glow today, it's simply
because he looked my way.
such plainest of things
make way to my soul
with a childlike certainty
and not without the faintest wonder.

Some things, I guess,
will just grow old with me...
like religion, or gravity,
things turn into laws,
and become as wind,
as fire, as God...
how can there be so much beyondness
to this simplicity?

He comes to me
as a child comes in from the cold.
I will be here for him
for as long as my self-defenses steel me.
there is a sweetness to being needed
for the wrong reasons
and in spite of false dreams.

He just has no idea
how at night I creep
under covers alone,
burning in melancholy.

Poetry is:
Passion, imagination and intellect running together.

Aloha with warmest regards, Cheryl Stewart Koomoa

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

1 posted 2002-08-17 11:33 PM

CSKpoet -

He just has no idea
how at night I creep
under covers alone,
burning in melancholy.

My goodness, this is just touching. Very touching...

BC

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

2 posted 2002-08-18 10:10 AM

I must agree with BC...the last four lines
really say it.....excellent!

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2002-08-18 10:14 AM

Sometimes, to trespass our own fears
would be to leave the melancholy behind...

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2002-08-18 10:17 AM

CSKpoet
Accepting is the game of life, enjoyed.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2002-08-30 10:52 AM

I understand fully! I love this! And I'm sending it back through so others can read it too!

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

6 posted 2002-08-30 11:06 PM

(big hugggssssss) Oh Cheryl, I agree with Karilea, quickly approach the fears but don't lose yourself in them, just learn to understand them then go on and turn the melancholy to hope! (sigh) This is touching, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Cheryl, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

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