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Pictographs

Lying here beside you

Staring into the brush stroked abyss

My mind registers

And whirs

And composes

The words I'm overrun with

The stories that run down the sides of my consciousness

Like I ran down that hill in my white gown

Running from my past

Into our future

I ache with excitement and yearning to speak with you

Awakenings fresh on my ink stained fingertips

Bubbling on the tip of my canvas stretched tongue

Expanding and morphing their confines

Unrecognizable

Without meaning

Devoid of intelligence

Scrawls and scratches of a cave dweller

Somehow paired with a Greek god

Your smile

Lost in the hieroglyphic translations on the page before you

The conversations I long to have

Reduced to mere finger-painted pictographs

Where I lose your attention

Incapable of expressing your radiance

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caroline-1
American
Published
Jun 14, 2013
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