And All at Once...Nothing
I waited for you on knees full of embers
stuffing hot coals in my mouth
to feel the burn of your sadness.
To compare daisies to our meeting
is like comparing dung with the sky:
wasteful and inhumane.
I have waited for many things in my life.
Waited on drops fallen from your eyelids,
Waited on smoke to curl from the ends of your toes,
catching fire to the coattails of youthful passion,
waited, heart rising up to mouth to make love with
only your name on my lips,
because you were all there was.
I have waited for many things.
And yet,
I have never known a hurt so profound
as stepping into your embrace and feeling
nothing and everything at once,
knowing it cannot/will not last.
About this poem
I wrote this poem during a time of my life when I fell into relationships with people who did not treat me well. I did this because I felt, at the time, that this is the type of love I deserved. Looking back to this time in my life, I see how far I have come in my healing, and growing into loving myself. It is a continuous road but one I am not going to stray from again.
Written on January 05, 2020
Submitted by annaf.92432 on May 10, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 153 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 1, 1, 4, 1 |
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