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Click hereTo Julia, On Her Departure for England
I wish we’d had more time
Not been thriftless, not floated
In that magic bubble, oblivious to earth,
And weeks, and years.
I wish I’d said what now
I can’t say, as the engines’ whine
Erases even thought, much less words.
Terminal farewells are so--terminal.
I stand behind the lines of uncaring,
Anxious self-loading air freight,
Watch you stripped by the x-ray,
Next passive before the wands held by heedless zombies,
Seeking out your breasts, your groin,
Going where I wish I’d gone
And now never will.
I hope you find in the land that birthed
Your mothers, fathers,
In ages past remembering
All I couldn’t give you,
All this land, so big, so strange, couldn’t give you,
But yet I fear, that there, as here,
There isn’t the home you need, or the love.
In the land from which you came
As here, you’re a stranger there.
© 2011 estragon
Just returned from reading your other poetry. This is a sea change in style for you and it works.....not that I didn't enjoy the rest. :-)
Tess
....for missed opportunities and fear at what the future holds. Perhaps a line break for "terminal", a stand-alone word to give it a greater hit.
The first of your work I've read - will look for more.
Tess
if you made a different choice in place of 'groin'. It's one of those 'huh?' moments, because it clashes with the simple elegance of the poem. Overall, good work, Gogo.
This poem is deceptively simple and transparent but brings one right into the mind of the 'teller.' But 1201's right, it explains itself. Excellent.
Then I looked into estragons other writing . He has a number of very good stories including one about a poem which is definitely worth reading.
But the scores he has been given on this site are absurdly poor, it doesn't make sense, this guy is good.