Poetry: #111 Come Closer (Hesitate and Grasp 3)
A selection from the collection: Hesitate and Grasp
Preface
The struggle is real. The battles of relationships, society, and personal challenges are real. This collection explores all that and concludes pretty concisely:
“Do not hesitate. Do not grasp.”
Or, as Yoda might say in a much clearer way:
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
Come Closer
Come in closer to see the streaks of tears on her face
What you have wrought when living this way
And come in closer to see what she says
She whispers, or is it whimpering?
“My heart is broken,
Kaleidoscope, prism, crystal;
I have cracked on the inside
And I needed you
And you were not there.”
Her words bite with the poison that you bent into form
Years after years she glistens in the tears of all those years
She hates the moments she cried and cherished the times she laughed
The thoughts come closer to her mind and you know what will occur
The breathtaking second where you lose everything in the memories
For the first time in years she speaks candidly to you as you sip the liquor
Muddled mind and meandering thoughts you ignore her words
And that is when she comes in closer to you for the first time in days
She spits in your face and flees to the safety of another set of arms
Your life crumbles as you had to take in the other
Come in closer to the heart of another
“I sit here and wonder
When will I die?
Is there a way to stem the tide,
Of all these ambitions?”
No, no there is not.
You are doomed to look elsewhere whenever you come close
The desire for being closer to some former lover.
The thought of living with her was phenomenal
But waned as the mundane came closer.Question Section
Breaking up with another person is not always clean. It’s often messy and the words left unsaid are finally spoken like an overflowing chalice of misery just waiting to be shared. Even outside of breaking up, relationships end poorly in similar ways. Have you ever been the one to initiate a slow death of a relationship until something finally snaps? Were you on the receiving end? What did you learn from the experience? Share your thoughts in the comments below if you’re comfortable doing so!
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