Letting Go, Smiling
We held on for an eternity it seems
Too long
To the hope of love
To our restless, unsatisfied desires,
To the pain—
You said the pain of love shouldn’t last forever
Or was that some old movie line
The one we repeated too desperately.
The tumult,
The din-my own making-my busyness
Yearning
for perfection
Drowned out the tenderness
from my own voice
Raucous harshness
Insanity eclipsing all my summer days
And me slipping away
Like the tears escaping
From your questioning eyes
Sent me away and
Alone
Until
Welcoming sunshine
Baptizing me
In pure brightness
Transporting me to my
Self
And you forever gone
I see you now
Bathed in more certain embraces—
I could never write our love song—
Her shadow even
casts warmth on you
His promise to make me laugh
Every day
Never fails
And they evoke from us what we never could for each other
I’m glad you found your smile again.
--Pamela Dawn
posted by ShiningDawn @ 5:33 PM
2 Comments:
Shining Dawn, smiling is so much your nature that I understand you shine even when frowning. Both of these poems, hinting at the depths of pain, shine for me and light my way back to the pages I must write. Thank you...all love be yours. IM
michel,
poetry, for me, is always in motion--never still enough to take a snapshot. If it lifted, fell and rose all under one title, you got the essence of the poem.
Thanks so much for the comment and stopping by :)
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