Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
#notreallylove
What did you expect when you presented a feast to a woman so starved, she'd eat her own heart just to feel loved?
0
Nov 28, 2025
Nov 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM UTC
Heart
“Amanda,” she said, in a bold assertion “We really are the same Person.” Limp in the dew and Wise like a sage, no wound cut No blood shed, yet, There was something this Bandage shut, Something yawning, gaping But I don’t know what… How sad! She’s crying, that Amanda, Shrugging ‘gainst the colic rain And almost lost in the copes-y veranda, Weeping softly on Those concrete flats, wearing “Red Tom’s And” both “Dating Matts” while I saw her fear in that moment, appalling, stalling With soroitous heart, “and fear of falling!” Binding them tightly: “That’s US haha!” How many laughs does a limp spirit draw? —(a disparaged few or none at all…) Still, she writes, “I am so glad” (a huff annoyed From Amanda, distant and sad, that I Can’t tell why “you” ever “joined.”) But this is not my place, a passerby, To pick up trash, inane and lonely, To cast my judgments and inquire—why? To heal the unbroken with words unspoken But scratched on refuse, she may “[heart] you” but refuse you, too The spirit of [heart] in Amanda awoken —(But she refused it, too!) And then be a token Some stranger takes home.
0
Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 7:52 AM UTC
“Amanda...”~or Refuse ~or Trash Poetry #1