Time Will Foster Closeness

For a friend who's deer (June 2013)

In the secrets told behind a mind lies

Where we cross our eyes

And try staring into each other’s word

 

I watch children to adult bodies’ bine

As my fingers twine in thine

And mine lips kiss songs currently unheard

 

I smell scars on memories gaffed

To fingers craft

And waft dreams hewn from the earth

 

Together they face trials

That alone can’t bring smiles

And wile away their lives in mirth

 

I hear whispered tales

Of future fables

And gabled hearts separate, come home

 

I see all glory and delight

Where fears confront flight

And sight stops an absent roam

 

But now I am here

So far from one who’s deer

And near worries of the future’s play

 

I stand alone

Trying to rip roots from bone

And tone past tragedies into clay

 

You travel broad

To learn clarity from fraud

And laud stories of a child grown

 

You inspire in me what’s right

As I try to cure my blight

And ignite a mature soul to the throne

 

Still I hold a terrible fright

That my feelings can’t fight

And slight memories demons alone

 

That your future has been cast

My love came last

And past without a moan

 

But in this moment writ

There is only one thing to admit

And omit the time it takes to get there

 

I want to tell each other stories

To hold one another through forays

And unbury the future’s care

 

Though its time has not yet come

I speak of it and shun

And thum’ my way to loneliness

 

So to stop my mind from lying

Into your words I’m buying

And trying to know that only “time will foster closeness”

Reviews

[Jeni Reed]

Oh gosh, I LOVE the rhyming scheme too!! So incredible. The story is beautiful, but the way you go about telling it is brilliant. A constant fight to get near someone- and with your rhyming word play and repetition all the way through it makes the reader feel the struggle and perseverance of the protagonist. Stunning read.

[Sami Khalil]

A splendid read and write...Thank you for penning...:)..................

[flaneur]

Subtle wordplay! I didn't catch it until the second read through. Third sentence-second word easter eggs. A loosely rhymed AA(A)C, BB(B)C structure that opens up your poem to deeper, flowing thoughts. Textured vocabulary: twine, gaffed, hewn, mirth. Playful, serious, and confident.

[kris reed]

Thanks a lot for reading and leaving your thoughts. I'm glad you picked up on the rhyming scheme, it took a while before I settled on that structure. Thanks again!