Reply #11: original and improvised [View All]

[peruban]

"The Intractable"

Withered expanse within your eyes
Hiding the pleasure of your disguise
The roads are slick with weathered tears
And draw in thick the harbored fears

Together we ran across the field
Where you and I, we sat and kneeled
A quick response we gave away
Into the wind which washed away

To brew and brood we slyly slide
Upon the wishes of the reddened eye
My counterpoint you nimbly evaded
If only just to be more jaded

How can this feeling be more spent
For only in prisms can light be bent
And where to choose the place of offer
But where we knelt, as if on alter

Hide, then, be gone, and come no more
For these emotions grow and sore
A kindling of faith you hold within
A finding of love you scold under skin

The chance we take, to become found
The kiss we steal to grave and ground
Will never be spoken, never an utter
Never more shall we have to shudder

The will of man is easily swallowed
By actions enacted and, hencely, followed
Rivers of joy we may evade
Until the day we find our shade

Underneath the willow tree
Underneath the you and me
By coming, then, you broke a vow
To promise never to see me now

In this feeble form I have collapsed
And want no more to be considered
An invalid with no more to hap
And then to be the constant withered.


-peruban