The Pedestal

To keep oneself from being burned, the candle can be kept in a box, the fire behind a screen. Why does one reach for the fire, knowing it will burn? Because it is so beautiful.

On your pedestal so far away

I may admire your beauty

On a cloud high in the sky

I can feel your light radiate

 

Keeping myself at a distance

I can see safely

Keeping you out of my reach

But always in my sight

 

If I try to reach your form

My hand might burn

If I try to pull you to me

I may slip, losing you

 

I am not your Adonis

Nor your mars

I am not your hero

I am only a coward

 

So fearful that if I reach

I may fall

Or If I do succeed to grab you

That my fate would be to lose my grip

 

I know it is safer to keep you away

Never within my grasp

For if I pull you down from the pedestal

I can only see fire, and then nothing. 

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

"I am not your Adonis

Nor your mars

I am not your hero

I am only a coward"

A very nice poem...I like those lines the most...:)...................