Poetry & Work 28 Apr 2008 04:22 pm
My Choice

To bring the fire back into your eyes,
to make the walls around your heart tremble and then break,
to see the life in your eyes once more,
to feel your trembling touch on broken skin once again,
to solicit that special blush, that unbearable shudder,
to light the sky with one single look,
one single well placed kiss,
I will love you without a word or look,
without touch or nearness,
with a passion that will remain,
painful, eternal and unreal.
I will love you while you will conquer the world,
your fear and darkness.
While you become the one you were meant to be,
go where you’re meant to go and
love who you’re meant to love,
and sparkle the world with laughter.
To die in solace,
to suffer in twilight,
to end it all in one single thought,
to choose what cannot be found,
to hold on to your dying look,
to love at last.
With every heart, every fibre and every inch of my mind.
With every seed of heavenly lyrics and harmony,
with every eye and tear…
I will love you.
For all the people unconsciously wishing me the best,
for all the thoughts sent into this direction,
hoping for me to finally get up and make that choice.
For all the well mannered and discrete inquiries,
the undecided and unwanted partaking,
for every whim and expression only barely disguising that one last question,
for all it matters and all it doesn’t, this is what anyone would have to say…
Get out and turn around, because you’re not helping anyone.
Breathe out and let the projection rush out of you, because you’re not bringing any clarity.
Keep going and don’t come back.
Let me tear myself up into the tiniest pieces,
without rhyme or verse,
my future and my past.
Let me cry my soul down into an endless pit,
into the depths of what you would call your hell,
and I simply call… my own heaven.
- To an absolute Extreme, an Idol of Inspiration, D.M.
There’s something that needed exploring: the theme of an unrequited love that has been loved and been precious for such a long time that it is like an old friend in your mind and your way to look at the world. And what if that old friend suddenly changed in the face of hope, even the smallest one. That’s what needed to be discussed and that’s how I fulfilled the premise.
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on 07 May 2008 at 16:40 1.Bob McWilliams said …
Wow, your poems always are so emotional. They really grip me like few others do. This one really has me painting many images and almost sounds more like a story than a theme. A bit like a biography where the twists and directions change so that the end is not seen, but felt in the closing.
on 07 May 2008 at 17:30 2.yseult said …
Thank you, Bob. It’s so nice to leave me a small comment and it helps me a lot - I am still trying to change and accommodate a new, sleeker writing style.
I’m glad you found something that touched you in this one.