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Open Poetry #13

There in My Living Room

AniKay83
Member

since 2000-06-28

Posts 388
Missing Since 1999

0 posted 2001-04-19 02:22 AM

I have a question
that burns inside my brain
like an entity unto itself
alive inside me
with liquid hands
it slides across my belly
and the answer lies sleeping
dormant
there in my living room

his fingers curl
in tangles of sleep
his dreams dance
across his lips
and I can touch his lips
though not his dreams
not here
here in my living room

silence crawls
through wakes of possibility
but reputation wounds my chance
and leaves it bleeding
on my couch
sprawling
there in my living room

lonelieness keeps
such strange company
the evidence of such
lies peacefully on the floor
and I am left wondering
why I hide my hands
behind my back
every time I want to touch him
secretly
here in my living room

"And I wanted you to turn away.
You don't remember, but I do.
You never even tried..."
~Fuel

[This message has been edited by AniKay83 (edited 04-19-2001).]

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

1 posted 2001-04-19 07:06 AM

Yes, loneliness does keep strange company, I enjoyed this. I know the feeling.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

2 posted 2001-04-19 01:14 PM

and in the answer to that question is so much. . .

this is excellent. . .makes you think. . . welcome back. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

3 posted 2001-04-19 06:29 PM

To want to touch someone yet hold your hands behind your back...how sad. Enjoyed your poem!

Speak when you are angry--and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret...Laurence J. Peter

AniKay83
Member

since 2000-06-28

Posts 388
Missing Since 1999

4 posted 2001-04-19 11:31 PM

Thanks all. I know I've been absent lately. I'm working on it, anyway....

Much love all,
Krissie

"And I wanted you to turn away.
You don't remember, but I do.
You never even tried..."
~Fuel

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