YOU AND ME

YOU AND ME

A Poem by Maureen Mwaniki

 

This thing that I want

It speeds past me

But am rooted where I stand

I can’t reach for it

This that I desperately want!

How vain! I can’t even touch

It ignites my hearts pulse

Then flees without a blush!

Why this that I want

That life deems unfit

For me to have?

And why taunt me with it?

This thing that I so want

This that I can’t have

This that is you and me…

This etched in my heart as us

© 2011 Maureen Mwaniki


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sounds like a love poem lost in a ripple of time now.

Posted 10 Years Ago


The hearts desire poem. I wrote a ton of those in high school all I got was a hand cramp and heart ache. Did get an A in English class though. Good stuff this poem.


Posted 11 Years Ago


very good, this is visceral, I like

Posted 12 Years Ago


AMAZING!

Posted 12 Years Ago


wow! that's wonderful. also glad to meet someone from Nai

Posted 13 Years Ago


beautiful and poetic =>


Posted 13 Years Ago


hehe the 'this that' that is seemingly taunting you can be achieved simply you moving from where you are rooted,where you stand and you will be able to reach for it as i bet your heart so desires.


Posted 13 Years Ago


I can feel your angst and your want. I feel that desire, that feeling of wanting something so bad yet you can't have it. Great poem, thank you for sharing.

Posted 13 Years Ago


Beautiful work!
I love it!

Posted 13 Years Ago


Love it :) particularly the last line.

Posted 13 Years Ago



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Maureen Mwaniki
Maureen Mwaniki

Nairobi, Kenya



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