I Wake the Beast

Have you ever written about love
until your eyelids were heavy
and tears drip dropped
from your eyes,
when clearly you knew
you had awakened the beast
that lies inside you,
deep and wide.

This is when I hear the world begin
to count the ways
it can swing
against my pride.
When I want to hear you say
I am beautiful
wipe away
the tears I cry.

I could proclaim that roses
slide over all of my shadows
and hold me close
until I no longer want
to be anywhere else.
Say farewell
to these lines I write,
put them on a shelf.

Yet still, I write of the love I know,
day by day, on paper
until the ink of my soul
becomes a gentle scent
which fades into each page.
Again I wake the beast
inside of my heart's cage.

Author's Note

Art by Paul Kelley

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

To write about love isn't easy. Need to have the emotion inside your heart and mind. I like this poem. You have the ability to express desire and love with skill. Allowing the reader to feel and know the emotion. I like the purpose and the desire of this poem. A excellent poem.
Coyote

[unknown]

Yes I can relate. I have many love poems or expression of love and it helps to write about it because I know someday those words will be true by my faith. Lovely poem!

[cartera]

An honest poem of innermost feeling. Some writers write fiction to avoid awakening the self-same beast or contacting the soul. I think I might be one.
The last verse is superbe.
ATB
Alex.

[Senseless whatever]

A true and accurate description of your writing. This is what I feel most really good writers feel or rather experience.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A crafty idea, why we write how we write, is never written or for that matter spoken, well done, good read.

[KAREN]

Awesome! Last stanza is my fav!
100/100

[Tate Morgan]

You have found your voice in this template you invent.It showcases your minds eye in a better way than any other I have read.This format fits you and could easily be remembered in years to come as NEVA'S

[Lily Mae]

Oh what to say ;) I think I will quiet my beast and take a break for a bit.. Time to feed and nourish.. Love and ink collide and share with us so many mysteries to life and the heart and soul.. You my dear friend ...hold our hands along the journey..x

[Sleepless]

true true that really teue words i feel like this sometimes my english teacher told me you can experience love but even withouth actually falling in love you can actually write about it and oh there is quote that i think goes like this love makes anyne a poet by i dont remember exactly but brilliant peom !:)

[Aidz]

Very nicely done Neva a different twist and angle to play with .. enjoy this one