Unspoken Need -The Second Part -Full Poem
I'm in love,
but what does it go through, the moment the words become clear?
When old feelings are lost,
and too prideful to return home to find their way.
I know there are lessons to learn in how things are said,
though no chances taken, when the circumstances turn opposite of north.
You can tell me anything, scream your pain, it's the words I want.
It's as though our expressions become clearer the farther out they are,
like an abstract.
It's unspoken and it needn't be, I hear it, but often times not.
Giving way to what we know as love, is all it can do at times.
Falling victim to what I know as the truth,
won't save either of us when that moment in time comes.
Daring and gallant lies can win the day where unheroic truths come up lame
….we've been there a time or two.
Love from two ends close and fix themselves into a monolithic bond.
Proving all powerful, though vulnerable still to silence and those
exchanges lacking restraint.
The need stands firm, though not much expected, it fritters away its brave face.
Alone in wonderment, maybe we aren't as far off as I think...
...perhaps patience is more art than effort…
Are we really content by merely having our point of reference?
Well away from where we started.
A long way lost, or just in circles,
but still through this fume, I venture back to say
-I love you.
Written 2 October 2016 at Camp Hovey, Dongducheon, South Korea
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