through your eyes

 

~

 

you may be gone    i don't know

even so   it is through your eyes i see

through your mouth i breath   through your senses

i experience    how else

could i know    could i possibly know

 

i see red when you see red    words 

mean nothing    colors seen through words

mean nothing    the music 

you sing i hear    the food you eat i taste

the skin you touch i feel    

 

i have no choice    this is simply

the way it is    the richer your life    the richer mine

if a moment passes unappreciated

it is lost forever    don't let that happen

 

~

 

from the first i knew all there was

to know of you    and you me    it was better 

without words    i see that now    i knew it as i wrote    

you knew it as you read    words are nothing

 

you may be gone    i don't know

you gave me sight so i could see    we touched

so i could feel    your song i could hear    a promise

i could hold    irreverence to make us safe    

 

your world is unfiltered    primal    raw    sensuous

i see it    except when your eyes are closed    

as they must be now    i see nothing    hear nothing    feel nothing

beyond pinpricks of memory

 

i have no say in it    this is the way it is      

our abilities are vast    infinitely so    

 

~





Poetry by one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2016-02-26 at 00:18

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Bibek The PoetBay support member heart!
Hmm ... interesting!
2016-05-18


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
I like this, it is sensory and for me I like how a poem tastes and feels - it is very intimate.

Elle x
2016-02-27


Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
Nicely done.
2016-02-26



There is a sense of mystery in many of your poems as to just who is speaking. The narrator and point of perception seem to shift so fluidly and subjectively. It adds to the feeling of intimacy.
2016-02-26



What a mystical and intimate poem. I love it. The theme works with the strengths of your style too, which often seems to bypass the words, to touch experience more directly. Reminds me of the feeling I would sometimes have when I was pregnant, only from another angle, with an intense sadness blended in yet raising the hopefulness to another level.
2016-02-26


Arunesh dixit
this poem is fresh and radiates the gratitude in a unique way.
2016-02-26


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
A thought provoking work.
Ken
2016-02-26



This is magnificent. Sad and joyful at once. To be able to see and feel and live with gratitude instead of resentment. A beautifu and emotional piece.
Ashe
2016-02-26


shells
Epic, I seemed to feel insignificance, maybe from the small i, the spaces work well, but I don't know why, maybe hesitancy/thoughts, then I wondered if it was about your mother?
Or it's about a lost love from way back. I'm probably over thinking, anyway I enjoyed it.
2016-02-26