Love Is Letting Go
When I look in your eyes
I wish I could see
What goes on in your mind
When you look at me
So vacant
So absent
So what? is the impression I get
But I can’t let go
When I look in your eyes
I see you blink
When I tried so hard
To be your everything
So foolish
So shameful
So much I should have done differently
But I can’t let go
When I look at our lives
I have no memory
Of a time when I wasn’t suffering
So perfect
So precious
So pretty a picture we made
But I can’t let go
When at last I looked
At reality
I let go of you
And of everything
And I fell so far
I fell so deep
I fell for you
And I fell asleep
I fought for years
Fears I had at first
What should have been stars
Never quenched my thirst
Never satisfied
Never did I wake
Until there was nothing left
For you to take
I am naked now
But I’m no longer bare
Bared my soul to you
And you didn’t care
So wonderful
Such a dreamlike state
I would have been with you
But even I can’t wait
So long
So long
This long
Would you please just go?
Edward Hotspur
Very nice.
NO, not nice..ummm…better than that. uh…very real. Yeah. real and….powerful. THat’s it! powerful. Thank you.
No, thank you. You’re too kind.
Wow. I love this. It is beautifully sad and I wanted more.
It was like a winter blanket and a cup of hot chocolate when you’re sick.
You have very mixed feelings about this whole ‘love’ thing, don’t you? Did someone hurt you, Ed?
Lots of people. Easy (too easy) to summon the feelings back up.
awwww, Ed. There there. Stiff upper lip. It is better to have loved and lost. There are a lot of fish in the sea. Open your heart, and your zipper will follow…
That says more about you than me.
Well of course it does. That is what I do, after all.
Speechless – definitely not from a 15 yr old – or even ‘soap’.
I don’t know what that means.
I’m speechless – it was a beautiful piece and definitely not written by a 15 yr old or ‘soap’ – cast your mind back the ‘how old are you game’.
I got the 15 yr old thing. I didn’t even get the soap thing earlier.
But thank you!
Don’t worry -
This is very sad. I’ve had a moment like this too.
This one might be autobiographical.