Where Chance Takes its Warmth

Through all the ways I feel
while every other explanation
clouds my mind,
to be with you now
still fades into highlights
as the music of my soul.

Tinted bit by bit by what is lost
is tomorrow,
bathed in bright tracks
everyone can see leaving
as I tried to
for years and years.

Dancing in the air
are thoughts
that do not know your name
with voices
breathing doubt
into my senses.

Now will endless seconds
share the same sky
with the prelude
that resonates
from everything I know?

Does a chance watch a veil
climb the stairway of daydreams
with eyes
that give what is inside
of me away?

While I long to call what runs around me,
only minutes
of which I have no control,
and like a giant oak
I bend against my grain.

After circling through all the ways I feel
and dancing in the air
with these thoughts;
I find everything
has become tinted bit by bit
by what is found today.

So now I watch darkness
escape up the stairway of daydreams
while chance takes its warmth
from the veil as it falls.

Still, while I may long to call what we are,
miles away from love,
I find myself following
all the ways
I feel about you.

Reviews

[FJ Davis]

Will any genuine lover ever really be satisfied with, "for as long as it lasts?" Isn't that precisely what a true lover dreads the most--a foreseeable end to cherished closeness? Isn't that why one would hesitate to fully commit?
How the mouth doth protest what the soul would deny!
A brave, soul-searching poem, Neva. And yes...grandly, curiously, hauntingly beautiful.

[Abdul Aziz]

I see you've decided to not use rhyme for this achingly splendid description of how our mind plays tricks on us while thinking about our loved ones. Brilliant, once again!

[Sukriti Suki]

Simply beautiful..I well warm, peaceful while reading this. Your words heal the soul even when talking about heartbreak or longing or waiting...Lovely.

[WynterPhoenix]

This is beautiful =]

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

That is truly a wonderful confession of the heart... admitting the faults of doubt but confessing that still scare you.

[Ladysue]

ok I so love your writing....i especially loved the 5th and last verse...poetic music indeed...amazing...

[SpokenWord]

Your heart is overflowing with poetic music for our eyes to enjoy and dream of feeling like this. Very beautiful write in my eyes. Maybe it isn't calling it what it is but there is much love and desire in these expressions. I really like the ending because regardless of what we think, sometimes we just need to follow our hearts.

[Robin]

another amazing soliloquy of the heart ~

[iamkim]

so wonderful! a very heartwarming poem. I felt to calmness of the line. the poem is so neat, very sincere...great!

[Kelsie Eileen Stark]

This is beautiful...words cannot describe its brilliance.