For I Have Loved Too Recklessly (Free Prose) I have loved too - TopicsExpress



          

For I Have Loved Too Recklessly (Free Prose) I have loved too recklessly ...Its the way I can... Relish in a line of poetry Laud it like a teenage girl in love And have missed that the rhymes arent right The prose is deep purple This poet has no; idea What a semicolon is Or when to break-- a line And so it becomes readily apparent That anyone, given a pen or keyboard Can write a pleasing line by accident Poets take that one moment And make them infinite And suddenly... My lovely lines dont mean anything anymore Its the way that I inhale it As if the euphoria were forever trying to escape me Carrying in its arms some cold truth A truth that I could never know Only to land back on Earth Body throbbing And melted from over-proximity to the sun And yet, I cannot recall what it was like Or if I was ever even there I have never known the truth That comes wrapped in a moment and expires thereafter I cannot believe in books Because they all have back covers And I have never seen her face not running Wet, with hot tears that bear my name Her lower lip trembling to the tempo of our common sorrow As I looked at her then Working my eyes over her like a shepherd I could tell it was already too late For we are all prey to a ravenous future I can not see her smile anymore And all of our lovely speech comes out In that low gurgle of realization Saying, Is it really over? All Ive ever really heard her say is Is it really over? And nothing Ive ever said Sounds like anything but a Yes...
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:39:19 +0000

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