Stretch out my arms
To meet your gaze
Bring our distance close
To find our meeting end.
I reach for your face
As you reach for my throat
There’s no greater sound
Than my words left unsaid.
Our twisting bodies twist,
Together,
And away.
Find our meaning in the way
You never let me see your face.
Together,
Then away,
Through the “nowhere else to be”,
Familiarity beats out courage
In a wasted land of space.
We’re stuck in this same town,
Same music,
Drinking the same drink,
Filling the same cemeteries,
At the end of our days.
Do not let me go,
Or I will fall away.
I fall away
At your gaze,
At your voice,
At your skin touching mine.
I fall away at every word you’ve ever said.
Stretch out my arms to chain you by my side.
You wanted to leave — I let you —
But now you’re here for my name
You choke out in endless echoes.
Together,
Then away,
Through the “time has ceased to be”.
I return to our courage-less bars,
Our courage-less songs,
Our frequented cemeteries.
Bury me beneath your ground.
I fall away
At your name,
At your face,
At your eyes slicing mine.
I fall away at every word you’ve ever said.
Stretch out my arms
To morph your body into mine.
Forever I’ll choke on your fist down my throat.
Tell me you don’t love me, just one more time,
And I’ll fall away at every word you’ve never said.
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You conveyed this painting well. Powerful writing. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Today, I am working on that folder you suggested, thus I need your link. YThanks my dear. I will be haunting you. BTW, I ladmire your writing ability
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🙂 Thank you! I look forward to your haunting. Haha.
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Oh, I just a sermn on one post. I admire you writing so much. Use it as the light of your life.You have too much talent not to.
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Thanks again for your encouragement. I love that phrase you used, “light of my life.” I will hold on to that.
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Good. I will harrass you some more this weekend. To many interruptions today. Have a good one.
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You, too! Thanks so much for stopping by and chatting a bit.
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I enjoyed this, especially this part:
There’s also something very playful about it, as if each you’re dancing from line to line — you capture the movement in Dali’s painting well.
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Thank you for stopping by, Cheri, and for your kind feedback. 🙂
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Whoa! Um…Liza that was pretty amazing to read. I’m going to only leave you my quick comment here right now to say I thought this was great, but I definitely want to re-read this a few times to get all the nuance. Great job!
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Thank you, Robert! I was feeling brave and thought I’d try a bit of poetry and a bit different inspiration (that also fits with an assignment for the writing class).
Thanks for reading (as always).
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It has a lot of substance there like all of your writing. Substance, yet mysterious at the same time. I also loved the visual element of Dali to go along with this. In fact I would suggest that recently you are almost writing the words missing from artists like Dali, and our favorite-Yves Tanguy!
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Oh, man. 🙂
Yes, I definitely want to attempt something to go along with a Tanguy at some point. But that will need to be when I have a bit more poetry under my belt.
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Your writing just has a starkness to it, an emptiness at times. It can be about two people like this one but it feels so solitary and isolated. Much like the paintings.
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I’m glad you felt that. I definitely wanted to reflect the isolation of the painting.
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I think you definitely did!
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