Linger

Give me a few days.. months.. even years

whatever this is or isn't
who you really are or aren't
if i turns out to be someone else, not you

it doesn't seem to matter now

I could love you
I could feel my heart flutter for you in excitement to be with you again
I could lean on you, let you lean on me like you do already

But to fall in love
to commit and give it all

I know you're not asking this, but it must be said..

My path for now is one alone
My heart cannot bear to dance again to another's heartbeat,
it must find back to it's own rhythm
My life won't let me live with another life,
it asks me to stay here with it, work it out, come home,
stop disappearing off to some dream

I'm sure you already see this..

Go away
become a distant dream,
only tugging at my heart when I am reminded of things I miss

I have the rest of my life to meet you
find you
see you
kiss you
build with you
grow with you

I will never get there if I linger here another moment
if I do not become me





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Written on 2011-06-04 at 21:19

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countryfog
"To thine own self be true" . . . if not, it is impossible to be true to someone else. Not selfishness but self-awareness, learning to love oneself first. You are honest with yourself, and that is a rare thing.
2011-06-05


Eli The PoetBay support member heart!
Your* : )
2011-06-05


Eli The PoetBay support member heart!
You capture a characteristic of my own life that I can so easily relate to; that of becoming lost in the search and then having no "me" to give when the searching supposedly ends.

You writing shows insight that can only be gained from real human experience. Thanks for sharing that with us.
2011-06-05