We Need Space To Come Together

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Open Poetry #21

We Need Space To Come Together

D.Lester Young
Senior Member

since 2001-12-08

Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

0 posted 2002-08-06 08:35 AM

(A continuation of ‘We Need Space Away From Each Other”)

So where does a beginning end
And an end start
How do you finish a poem?
When life has so many twists and turns
That individual’s takes in different directions
Under the same circumstances
Do you become pessimistic, realistic, or a dreamer

So let’s continue an abrupt ending
The door knocked loudly at a late hour
The second half of a story just appeared on TV
Leaving the solace of the room
You look outside and see a loved stranger
Who had drifted to find their own way

Opening the door two set of eyes meet
Needing each other and not willing to admit it
They ask to come in
The heart says yes the mind no
Somehow the voice overrides it all says okay
So two beings fueled by a love hate relationship
Start to fall in love again on a new level of awareness

In a road of independence
They had found they needed each other
But were afraid to admit it to the other
Now the true commitment of time starts
The slow process of renewal

So at a lonely distance
The negotiations begin
Bringing two back together
Until the warmth of each is again held close
Making one depart and saying
“You can sleep on the couch”

Closing the door the heart jumps with joy
But the mind wants to yell in disgust
But is slowly being charmed back into reason
So the bed of loneliness
Starts to brings back the feelings
For the fireplace of tomorrow
Will heat things up even more

D.Lester Young (08/05/02)
Tuscaloosa, AL
Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry)

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2002-08-06 09:10 AM

Well portrayed verse. The emotions are strong.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

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