Open Poetry #27 |
Astronaut |
Saxoness
since 1999-07-18
Posts 1102Texas |
If my love is tangible, then it is spread across my body as a map. Follow the curve of my ear. This is where false whispers spoken in too many dark corners have punctured holes in my skin, and I’ve placed trinkets there, roadside memorials, that I see reflecting in your eyes when you say you love me. My shoulders are wide. They support your good intentions, the things you always meant to say, the actions that never become reality, the promises you allude to, hoping that I’ll come to my own conclusions. Your hands are large, but they can’t quite span across me, and in the end I know I’ll find the truth to your motives in the bare spaces between your spread fingers. How many times have you read me? Tracing your fingers down the stretch marked pathways of my breasts, my inner arms, my stomach, listening as I search for your heart. You interpret the Braille of my body and tell me what I need to hear so you can smooth the rough terrain between us and remain ambiguous a little bit longer. If you love me, then make me your world. My body should be your soil, my heart your force of gravity, my life your only supply of oxygen. I was never meant to be a launch site for your next adventure in life. If you love me, then transform me into the earth, and do not drift away. "Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling where alone |
||
© Copyright 2003 Angela Erin Burke - All Rights Reserved | |||
ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state |
But if you're being used just as a platform for him to drift off to other ambitions, than he isn't for you is he?love will find its way when you least expect it, I'm told [This message has been edited by ecrivan (07-06-2003 01:55 PM).] |
||
littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Beautiful writing Angela . . . and indeed . . . you are far more than what you speak of or are thought of and you know this . . . xxoo |
||
⇧ top of page ⇧ | ||
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format. |