Stay here

I was thinking, I really hate endings. I want to always stay in the beginning.

Your voice lit up my spine, glowing

I felt you and I, and it looked so never ending

you stood by, and I just flew by...

Couldn't we just stay in the beginning?

where the end is still an infinity

Couldn't we just pull a circle 

round us here, and make hills

we could forever climb?

Can't the path always stay new?

while the pine needles turned to rust

Why does it always happen

the wall, the pain, the dust.

I wished and washed the sky away

pulling down blackness, outlining you

I fall in the dust every day

wanting to know, to know, 

why beginnings always go.

I would hold you harder

if the time would only give up its sin

I would pray if it mattered

I wouldn't choose, I wouldn't lose

again.

I wished and washed the sky away

outlined in black; now you are void

I inhale your dust every day

I hardly remember you, us, the joy.

please, put back on those shoes

hold my hand so we can stand

and breath this air til it's new

let us start again, at the beginning.

Reviews

[SHEEMA HUQ]

Good analysis, warm and engaging.

[Blue Ivory]

All good things must come to an end. The beginning of a relationship is almost always so nice... The sparks sadly wear off eventually. We all long for that passion later. There really is nothing like it. It's a shame we can't preserve it. Blame human nature for getting bored easily. Good work. Always a pleasure reading you C:

[Larrycall]

Endings are new Beginnings

[Mark]

Always.. thanks fo reading yokolyn.

[Claire Twinn]

To me this was both lovely and sad, suggesting wonderful starts and less rosy middles and ends. Beginnings are exciting and less scary because we have less to lose.
I love the wistfulness in this poem.

[Mark]

Thanks so much Claire. :)

[Leslie Philibert]

good work, well put-together poem with a feel-good romantic theme, that I and many will surely like..

[Mark]

thanks Leslie I appreciate your thoughtfulness and expertise.

[carol burgess romance]

I really enjoyed the concept of your words...it would be great to always stay in the beginning of happy times, relaitionships, life....although middles are very comfortable beginings are so fresh and new....great write

[Mark]

Thank you :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Such regret and longling so well described in a flowing and poignant piece of verse Mark

[Mark]

As always, my brother, thank you for reading.

[Coyote Poetry]

A very sad poem my friend. Heartbreak make us did deep and teach us what real pain is.
"I would pray if it mattered
I wouldn't choose, I wouldn't lose
again."
Regret is our only friend when the heart is broke. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Mark]

Thank you so much my friend.

[eglantine]

"Your voice lit up my spine" wow! Amazing attention grabber of a first line! Very pleading, emotive poem. I completely understand the speaker. Thanks for sharing

[Mark]

Glad it got you e. Brightens my day whenever I see you've read something of mine. :)