I never asked

I never asked you to love me.

But since you’re here,

You might as well stay a while.

 

Wrap yourself around

My secret spaces.

 

Smile sunshine

On my foolish ways.

 

Dance with me

Through sideways moments.

 

I never asked you to love me

 

But if you decide to stay around;

I’ll try and remember to smile at you

 

As often as I can.

Reviews

[Bennett Logan]

This may be one of the better poems I've read recently. I love the ambiguous tone. Happy? Sad? Indifferent? Resigned? The end result is a very dry but palpable situation. The repetition of "I never asked you to love me" really stands out to me. It's a clause under "You might as well stay a while" in case things begin heading south unexpectedly. Again...really really good stuff, Emily!

[Emily B]

it occurs to me that I once loved a man and I was so addicted to his smile that I knew as long as he looked at me with that smile I would never leave him

and I didn't, I stayed as long as the smile lasted

[Narnie]

This is my favourite of the lates ones... the words could relate to me so clearly.

[Doctor JKC]

You are far from foolish!
But is there compromise here?
Love, Jack

[Tommy]

You know this piece reminds me of my brother. He always says, " I am not going to leave her, but if she gets sick of me she can go." This put a smile on my face, but it makes me sad in the same light; I feel sorry for the one deciding to stay around.
RLG,
Tommy

[there is no more from m..]

wow a brilliant poem :-)

[Gandré]

Dance with me

Through sideways moments. ========are now/where in sight.. he found them. You give all you have - smile and loyalty music-steeped, this is the dance of life, even I know it. sweet honest poetry, without pretense without any hidden seduction, the reader makes it for himself, I liked this.

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Great poem!!

[KUFU]

rough...indeed. hehe...nervous.

[Touché Armada]

Cutesy, you should try to format this one so it has a dimple, not two two is ordinary one is cutesy and the thing smiles fall off, seriously if I see a really good smile with a dimple I cant help a smile falling of my face, or would that be falling on? I don’t know cause I’d like to know that when mine hit it would jump to the next face and so on and so forth so that would be falling off to fall on.. okay I’ll stop there.

[Emily B]

it isn't finished growing yet, maybe one day . . .