Uncertain beats

errant thoughts collected

-dreams don't lie

you never lie
but you do
hold back.

I know
in my heart
it really isn't me (it's you)
but in my head
I fear I lack
something ...

what exactly are you
waiting for?
a special mean
kind of jealous love?
someone you can be
proud of?

dreams don't lie
it is me
you would miss (yet)
why do I worry
each kiss
is goodbye?

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something real

pale notions
of ecstasy
passions past
and pretty
without substance
yet
there is you.
something real
I fret
I cannot
hold
onto.

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the irony of wonder

while you wonder
if there's someone
other
than me,
there's a line
of others
waiting
to prove
they are better
than you.

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rules bent to breaking

sometimes it seems
you work so hard
to draw your lines
you forget
what defines
you and me.
rules bent to
past points
of breaking
feeling,
without faking ...

the only person
more afraid
of what might
or might not be
than you
is me.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Honest and powerful poetry shared Lyn.
"the only person
more afraid
of what might
or might not be
than you
is me."
I liked all the poetry. The above lines. Dangerous places to fall into to. Thank you for sharing the amazing words and your thoughts.
Coyote

[Lyn Anderson]

I feel all warm and fuzzy now, thank you.

[Coyote Poetry]

I love your work and you are welcome.

[Neville]

Those uncertain beats are the very pulse that exists within and around your poetry and I thank you for it.... Neville

[Lyn Anderson]

Putting it so succinctly. Thank you

[Neville]

pleasure........

[redzone]

apt title for these thoughts collected... "uncertain" ... each one filled with doubt and maybe I will lose you.. I like them all but that last one and these words:
"you work so hard
to draw your lines
you forget
what defines
you and me."
this just made me really sad as I read... that it is so difficult to have love and be in love

maybe because recently I watched again "Untamed Heart" with Marisa Tomei/Christian Slatter... atragic love story... anyway, I do love the way ou share your thoughts KL

redzone

[Lyn Anderson]

I like that movie. Yes, doubt can creep in the quietest of places now and again.

[redzone]

insecurity... one of the reasons I loved that movie is because I think they had something very special, they were open to each other and not afraid of what each of them were thinking.... maybe I read too much onto the movie, but one I think will always move me emotionally when I watch...

here's to hoping the doubts you express are being overcome and in good ways...

[Paul Bell]

Certain dreams are just like hindsight. Which can be bloody frustrating at times.
Great concept your four poems. Like it a lot.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

[Papaya]

The irony of wonder. That really struck me. All of them super of course...

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. I have a lot of new ones, but if I post too many in a day, they get lost in a sea of apathy.

[Papaya]

I am starting to use that subscriptions tab.
I don't read yours from work very often because I know some are mature so just in case... :)

[NoelHC]

There always is that uncertainty, that doubt, you can never truly know the other, maybe not even truly know yourself. Well done KL.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you darlin, you always get me.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Kind of all over the place and yet all are good. My favorite was the third poem.

[Lyn Anderson]

Funny you should think that, they are all same-themed. It is a collection of four separate poems. Sometimes people interpret them as one poem.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like the line, "there is somebody better than you"---

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, I appreciate it.