longing...
someone else's feelings, not my own


Come, I'll Sleep Quickly

Come, I'll sleep quickly
with you there to hold me
and hush your sweet breath in my ear.

I oft fall asleep
to the dream of you lying
beside me and holding me near.

But when I see you
with your hand locked in his
then I know that you're not to be mine.

And so I've resolved
now to silence my hopes
and romantic ambitions resign.




Poetry by bluebackpack
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Written on 2009-09-03 at 05:36

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An ardent request, highly topical in this cyber age of loving, we exist in. A longing it seems that most participants of love triangles find themselves in...love is like that, very strange, very surreal and never predictable.

I certainly can relate to the sleep references. Feeling loved and secure are always the best circumstances to sleep well.

Best of luck in the resignation!

Tai, smiling at you
2009-09-04


Rob Graber
Good job with the meter; a sigh of "resignation," this is a kind of grown-up's lullaby I think.
2009-09-03