I didn't expect it then,
there, but not, no, not then.
Small, and many times,
unaccustomed to my home a yet;
Positively I peered forward, waiting on lights
until a clutter of voice and hello,
alerted me,
to a presence.
And it was her presence.
I knew, recognized,
and clanged that empty
cold bell into
a singing steeple.
Hit from the side, I
puttered to my feet and
struggled into hellos and
the long-awaited, paltry,
embrace.
mywordsrolledout
anddownthefrontofmyshirt
ontotheground
for others to walk
unwittingly across
She, usurping pauses,
whispered speech out in a harbored
dammed-up way,
but like sounds
of birds bathing
in streams.
Our modesty admired and shown
its countenance onto our not-so-betraying
pleasantries.
She sat.
I sat. small. and
many times unaccustomed to here.
I peered positively forward awaiting lights
to rest easy and with grace on the presence
- to whom - the blades of grass beneath
bowed.
Sinking into me, a spring, pure, of two souls
whom, are admired
because they pretend
not to know;
they curtain themselves from each other
just because of what they aren't ready
to show.
Aug 8, 2012
Aug 8, 2012 at 6:42 AM UTC
I didn't expect it then,
there, but not, no, not then.
Small, and many times,
unaccustomed to my home a yet;
Positively I peered forward, waiting on lights
until a clutter of voice and hello,
alerted me,
to a presence.
And it was her presence.
I knew, recognized,
and clanged that empty
cold bell into
a singing steeple.
Hit from the side, I
puttered to my feet and
struggled into hellos and
the long-awaited, paltry,
embrace.
mywordsrolledout
anddownthefrontofmyshirt
ontotheground
for others to walk
unwittingly across
She, usurping pauses,
whispered speech out in a harbored
dammed-up way,
but like sounds
of birds bathing
in streams.
Our modesty admired and shown
its countenance onto our not-so-betraying
pleasantries.
She sat.
I sat. small. and
many times unaccustomed to here.
I peered positively forward awaiting lights
to rest easy and with grace on the presence
- to whom - the blades of grass beneath
bowed.
Sinking into me, a spring, pure, of two souls
whom, are admired
because they pretend
not to know;
they curtain themselves from each other
just because of what they aren't ready
to show.
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