Secrets

...sometimes you have to tell your secret..

Secrets

"If I go crazy
will you still be there to hold my hand."
..."as long as you'll be my friend at the end."
3 Doors Down / song: 'Kryptonite'
from their album, 'The Better Life'
_________________

Secrets are often like shadows,
they disappear
when you try to hold onto them;
try to comprehend why
they materialized to begin with.
__________

I have a secret.
one I swore I'd never tell
until I met you that is.
Love really is like music;
lyrically happy,
achy-breaky,
impossible to obtain.
In every icicle,
there is the essence of the glacier,
and we often live out our lives
for that nano-second of invulnerability;
for the warm comfort
of a beating heart
snuggly wrapped around you.
___________
Yes, love is all that,
yet mostly we love,
or are loved
for little things:
The devilish smile
you wear with my flannel shirt
in the morning
doing the crosswords;
the way you walk smuggly
in those soft leather boots;
or those brown, teasing sparkles
in your eyes
when you see a shooting star;
or the way your soft breathing
at night comforts me.
__________
Yes, I live for each of these nano-seconds.
For it is here
that I feel alive - almost human

~~~ redzone 1/18/14

Author's Note

hope you enjoy the poem.. romantic poetry is not usually my thing that I write, but lately I seem to have the urge to dip my fingers into the possibilities it presents.

comments are always welcomed

captcha says "stephane".... wrong captcha that's not her name.. hmmm perhaps it's the captcha's secret... interesting thought...

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

second stanza is a great description of love....but i like the prelude to that...the first stanza with the reluctance to write the poem at all, and share the secret. Because we fear that if we actually say what we are feeling, that feeling will diappear...
we might jinx it.

and love can really make us feel almost human...

love this piece. you might consider writing more romance...you do it eloquently...

[Frieda P]

I love this one curt, it's warm and cuddly like that flannel shirt and such a safe place to land...

'that nano-second of invulnerability'

Ahh yes, makes us gooey inside and then we spill all our secrets and desires!

Ha, the captcha knows all, you holding out on us?! ;-)

100 warm snuggles

[redzone]

nope captcha is wrong..it's the captcha secret love.. thanks Frieda .. mine is a secret.. lol

[Frieda P]

Oh my, you're defying the captcha gods...you're in trouble curt............ haha

[Lydia Shutter]

Oh, for the moments when a warm heart wraps around yours snuggly.....the moments when nothing else matters but the two of you and there is no vulnerability in the room......the no makeup casual glances that make you feel the love.....the knowing coup d’oeil that erases secrets and bad memories...the soft flannel shirt romance of a relationship that was written in the stars and shall ever be so. Curt, your poem is exceptionally romantic...heavy sigh material for sure! Very “nice”. Lydi**

[redzone]

thanks Lydi, I think that red suited, arrow flinging imp somehow got in my room and "twanged" me.. maybe it's cause we approach Valentine's day, or maybe he just has a wierd sense of humor, . but in any case he should leave me alone and pick on someone else... ;0)

[Lydia Shutter]

nah, I think Cupid is a smart dude. If he got you, there is a good reason. :)

[joshua sky]

You've done an excellent job here. Your work, as I read it, here stirs and arouses my senses to where I can visualize a remarkable moment with the one I love...

Again, well done. :)

[redzone]

Thanks for the great review Joshua. Glad you enjoyed. Hope I am not showing my ignorance, but the photo you are using, is this the warrior Sitting Bull ..?

[joshua sky]

No, it is a Sioux war chief of whom I don't know the name. I have used Sitting Bull as a profile picture and will again as a tribute to these majestic peoples.