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Open Poetry #47

in the Republik

martiniat8
Senior Member

since 2003-06-21

Posts 897
Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

0 posted 2011-02-27 06:35 PM

in the Republik

She smiled and looked into my eyes asking me,
"What's behind me?"
My eyes drifted from hers to see...

nothing, nobody

I said to her, quietly
"I must've been looking through you"

My eyes did not dart away from her to my knowledge
but as we sat in the Jazz Republik, there were the occasional passerbys

gliding by,
eyes,
just above the stairway wall

as they moved slowly behind that wall,
down the escalator to the metro,

and those eyes of their's
the expressions of those looking through the window
they gazed to where we were, where we sat
and their expressions seemed to say

there's something going on in there
that we were at a place they could not be
expressions of bewilderment
not curiosity

and that
that was what was behind you, my dear
in the eyes all of those that have passed us by
it was a look of a place they could not be
it was, envy.

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

1 posted 2011-02-27 06:54 PM

martiniat8 (or anytime after noon in my opinion) ~ you just keep getting better. I love this one too.

Alison

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

2 posted 2011-02-27 09:57 PM

envy indeed...excellent write...so enjoyed

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