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Poem: The distant flower

31 May 2014 at 07:14hrs | Views
My heart is bursting over

Heavy with unshared emotion

Miles away you are yet still I bend over

Hanging on to the dream I hold dear

Gentle memories revive my parting tears

You forgot your shadow in my dreams

My fears pile like years on land

To leave it barren from over-use

This pain despises the good times we share

It causes the heart to fall farther and hide

I lost myself on the way to finding you

I know not my past before you came

It is your breath that completes my heartbeat

My identity is child to your fairy-like aura

This body you see obeys me not anymore

See what you have done you disastrous Gibson girl

You have taken over the entirety of what I held dear

To put in its place a face I would kill to have

It is the image of a goddess from my Christmas dream

You sit in my mind just next to my knowledge of God

You pull on my nerves and toy with my ears

I sit here in these cold blankets and my mind wanders

I am lost in a maze of emotion and abject desperation

It is way too early to be thinking this much

But my mind is set to this robust infatuated ache

In my mind I meet you at some imagined place

You walk toward me with a stride that unsettles me

Slowly you get near and start to fade away and off

I hold out my arms to welcome your balminess

But you disappear like smoke from a winter's fire

The cinders burn even my heart's armour

And until you return to douse this wild passion

Here I shall be; lonely, broken and defenceless

Source - Carlo Marcel
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