Tuesday, July 29, 2008

I can't take it slow

You,
of whom I felt loved to death.
Upon our first meeting,
You
embraced Me like a close friend,
when I was still unfamiliar to touch
and grossly deathly afraid of the
skintoskin.

Oh
You.
I loved that,
and I loved how I met
You
under no special circumstances.
When
I was I,
and Me was Me.

You,
of whom I was drawn.
But you discovered the secret of Me.
(MeplusMe)
It was no lie; I couldn't hide it.
My contents spilled and leaked,
and I was there limping
on the floor of the counselor's office,
drenched in foreboding lingering regret
etched onto a memo pad:

Your Sophomore Schedule,

and it was done.

You
and Me split.
(we split kindly; the way that lovers do NOT do.)

You
discovered my secret--
my name is anonymous;
unknown and devoured by Your sumptuous lips.
my heart spilled that day,
and it rained of purples, greens, and reds.
and personalities, and characteristics, and apparently
our forgotten memories.

Your
mind had been reset;
and
You
asked me years later,
about how we had met.

I am sorry that I told You.
And I am sorry that I really know now,
that all that we had in the past is perfectly null.
Because...
You
can't notice me.

- - - - -

This is not a love poem. (Hm, I hardly ever write love poems...) This is a friendship poem about someone I've known for a few years. This is also about the difficulty of finding my identity (in the most obvious of ways). And the capitalized "you" is NOT making a religious reference. I make a play on capitalization in this piece. Everything (grammar, spacing, punction) is important. At all times.

It's always about you, isn't it. You can't even remember...

2 comments:

Charlene Grace said...

Don't feel bad, guys naturally forget these things :p (just kidding). Still, he couldn't even remember that I met him in P.E. (which started before the retreat).

Even if he saw me more frequently in class, though, that doesn't mean a thing. He just leans towards whatever is more convenient for him and immediate in the moment (as exemplified yesterday).

Anyways, I really like how you made every stanza begin with "you" or something leading up to that "you." They really portrays your feelings. The style makes the poem seem like you're writing out a list, pausing in-between to collect your thoughts.

NeZ said...

"I can't take it slow"

I loved this, man. It's crazy because I'm going through this very awkward phase right NOW in which I'm just sitting around. It's like I want to soak in everything.

It's like I know where I'm supposed to go and I see my goal and I know what I'm supposed to do, but I'm not sure if I wanna get there yet.

My favorite:
"and I loved how I met
You
under no special circumstances."
The best things come unexpected. They best/worst part about it is that sometimes we don't know what to do after they happen.