Long Time Coming

Multitudes of people, all searching for that

One thing to feed their hungry hearts

Internalizing upon every single mistake

Bearing that catholic guilt held up on high

Mother knows all the mistakes I've made

Because she made em' too. 

You look into my eyes as if my soul

Were another page out of the holy book

To read so intensely,

Familiar lines from a passage so clear. 

Interminable, unconditional, this pounding

imperious and powerful from my chest.

Dominating my thoughts, this heartbeat of mine

takes all control and I cannot from my mind's eye stray.

I'd live another book in your library forever, 

For just the chance of you turning my pages. 

Reviews

[Kaylor Mason]

That last stanza--that's a stroke of genius :)

[MoriartyMesa]

The flow and form of the words are nice as is the mental thoughts.

[Chris]

The last two lines held me transfixed...

I understood the others.