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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2006-01-02 03:40 PM

For the Long Haul
2 January 2006

For the long haul, you said -
a committed relationship, you said!
Hee hee!
That’s what I thought it was
all those years ago
but only the first time.
All the other times
when we got together
when we didn’t have anyone else,
my heart wasn’t in it,
not really,
except for once
when you really seemed human
for much of the time
for a few months on end
until you gave me reason
to write you
a hate poem.

This time I thought
our chances
were
a little rosier
so much so
that the thought
of the “long haul”
especially with you
crumpled my courage.
And yes, you seemed
almost human,
well, for almost
a day, anyway.

And
our “long haul”
lasted almost
two days,
but thank goodness
that’s all over now,
hopefully for good
this time.

I don’t think
you know
it’s over
yet.
You never notice these things
with me
or anyone else.

But the saddest thing is
that it took alien-humanoid-you
to make me realise
with a little stark comfort,
that Princess,
our office cleaner,
lived every moment
of her nearly thirty-seven years
in spite of apartheid,
in spite of deprivation,
in spite of her hardships,
in spite of her sorrows,
whilst you,
in spite of all your plans,
are just
a robot
that has
robotted
for nearly
sixty-one years,
and that there was more life
in just one of
Princess’ smiles
than
in all of your android existence
and you
will
never
be
alive
and she will
live on
in the hearts
of
so many.

- Owl

Bodger
Senior Member

since 2005-06-12

Posts 1260
Tolerance for a short time

1 posted 2006-01-02 05:04 PM

Well worth saying

Yes excellent

Dave

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

2 posted 2006-01-02 06:25 PM

Diana, Very well done! Sad when humans
are not treated as humans... when we all
have feelings...and that things sometimes
hurt!

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

3 posted 2006-01-02 06:46 PM

Gosh, I think I just wrote this talking about the Salem Witch trials in here.

You wrote everything I feel, and I am sorry you do feel like this, but oh yes do I ever know it.

my heart wasn’t in it,
not really,
except for once
when you really seemed human

and this:

I don’t think
you know
it’s over
yet.
You never notice these things
with me
or anyone else.

. . . baffled here, myself.

Just goes to show us which ones have light and which ones don't.
The messed up thing is some are good at hiding the dark and sneak it up on you 'till later.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2006-01-04 12:21 PM

Thanks Bodger, Magnus and littlewing.

Yes, it is sad, Magnus.  However, this guy stopped hurting me decades ago.  I am just refraining of hurting his ego - his only emotion.

The last part of the poem refers to Princess, our office-cleaner, who died (I now know definitely) of AIDS in December and to whom I wrote the suite of 3 poems entitled You're Not Coming Back.

You are so right, littlewing.  This guy did hide the dark things - seems so benign until you find out that he is simply a robot.

- Owl

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