Contemplations After Saying Goodbye
Waves of the escalator slide, flowing down,
Alone, I am in a sea of faces.
Sad strains of a piano concerto ugly and fuzzed overhead.
I can handle the world alone but my mind doubts my heart;
fool-less heart you are lost
amid your own certainty,
amid your need to prove,
prove something the mind fears.
I fear you sky,
I fear your limits.
I wish I could wipe
this hard look from my face
these wrinkles from my brow
and this turmoil from my body.
It is disconcerting to acknowledge
that you look out from your eyes
and cannot see the world in its entirety
for you cannot see all of yourself.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 113 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
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