Your words are so elegant and fit together so wonderfully. The emotion you've hidden between the lines comes clear at your powerful close. A gorgeous write. Thank you.
"illusions are for fools...
and i will be one no longer."
Punch line of a heart which has learnt things the harsh way.
i have read almost all that you have posted and all i can say is you didn't become a poet,poetry came in search of you.
I really like this! One poem can mean many things to many readers, if written well. This is one of them.
Posted 12 Years Ago
I felt this through your words, this person is dancing still, in the mind, and the ending is a denial, of what shall never leave, illusions, could be very driven if a mind such as yourself is so highly colorful... Amazing work, Brilliant.
This felt like a warning for your heart and those who might encounter your words... how things we feel and see and experience can melt away to a very different reality... dreams to dust... Sadly moving...
"She may have a heart on fire, but she don't have smoke in her eyes." So often we get caught up the excitement of those first emotions and mistake it for more. Tome the dramatic turn was real life.
I love your words , moving between a fantasy and real , illusions around us all the time , we dont alway know whats real or not ... sometimes what we feel / see is not what the other side do , although we fool ourself that this is the case ... we are good in that ... thats how we survive xx
A Dream Within A Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if.. more..