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Elegy for the Awkward

Not for us do vistas spread, for “pastoral bliss”

take ancient poets, who under skies kiss.

 

For the internet kids, blinking lights of cities,

blurring out under rain, singing ditties.

 

We drink our fill (that trope remains), talk til dawn

reminds us to go sleep, to bed? Lead on.

 

“I won’t stop talking, I swear, I can’t, you’ll have to-“

Stop. Caution to winds, but haven’t a clue.

 

Is this the new normal? How do I, what? I like

you. That’s all. We do seem rather alike.

 

An elegy for the awkward. Kisses and qualms.

Have I touched your heart? Or just touched your palms?

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Written by
nicky-van-der-watt
South African
Published
Apr 16, 2013
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