we don't know

Discussion in 'Poetry' started by shryan, Feb 5, 2006.

  1. shryan

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    One person, infatuating

    Another one, not noticing

    Foot to foot

    And wall to wall

    Walking in air

    Then the fall onto his face

    The carpet is uncomfortable,

    And the pillow wouldn’t do as well

    As would something from you.

    A failed attempt and he flees



    A superficial success surmised.

    And in an empty exaggeration,

    He looks to thought

    While his feelings echo

    “We don’t know either.”



    He walks back,

    Through the blistering

    Wind and cold,

    Stuttering,

    Trying not to slip,

    On the ice of his mind.

    And his thoughts melt

    With drops of regret

    A forgotten emotion ne’er felt,

    Nor e’er heard from

    Footstep by single step

    Crunching the frosted blades

    Shattering his hope of a possible situation



    This juncture has come at last:

    A decision of impulses,

    A frustration from infatuation,

    A questioning of why

    To which unknown feelings reply

    “We don’t know either.”



    Another hang up followed

    With hollowed contempt.

    And a slight effort without a heart that

    Drips and drains all plasma filled blood

    Leaving it to chance and part

    To stop at thirteen plus this day.

    So to marinate this beating core,

    He clings with static

    To an empty hope of some kind of mercy

    Just to ease his icicle shattered mind.



    What is this concern for you that he possesses?

    Why look into a mirror that fails to glance back?

    And the feelings retort



    “We don’t know either…”
     
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