another dream deferred

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RisiaSkye
RisiaSkye
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I keep hoping that it will change
not because there's no beauty in now
or because resolution looms large--
a lion's head
(if only in the rear-view mirror)--
but because in my dreams
you do not suffer
under your own hand
or the crushing weight
of dreams kept at bay.

And slowly the pressure builds
and I cannot help you
except to hold you. I can
only watch and wish and
lick salty tears from your
troubled face.

And I can see the wheels
turning behind
your furrowed brow as the
ache grows and the days
slow and the desire to be free
wrestles with the need to
be chained to the familiar
comforting earth. The hollow
silence of the heart's home
rings throughout this castle
ticking a practiced metronome
for the chorus of demons
just awaiting their chance
to bleed melody
from this misery.
I can accept that.
What I cannot accept is
to resign you to
the fate of your design
without a fight, rather
than try to hold back
the nights alone
until hours grow elastic,
stretched thin but sweet
and we must be pulled apart
reaching for each other
like taffy made on the beaches
of our ocean.

And this is my struggle
one I choose every day
and nobody wants me here
in the twilight of your fears
but me. That isn't the irony.
But heaven is a door
without a key, but at
the other side
you'll find there's always a place
to lay your head
and someone will always love you
even--especially--
when you don't feel strong
enough to
deserve it.

RisiaSkye
RisiaSkye
91 Followers
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11 Comments
duddle146duddle146about 17 years ago
keys

Having misplaced the key to Heaven's door ~ I ask for your understanding.

LeBrozLeBrozabout 17 years ago
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This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 34,000 poems.

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LeBrozLeBrozabout 17 years ago
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Here's a piece that slowly wraps itself around you and seems to have no beginning or end; just a seductive call to keep reading.

WriterDomWriterDomover 19 years ago
wonderful

How can one not love RisiaSkye?

Toward A WordToward A Wordover 19 years ago
lyrical love

thoughtful, tender, strong, and lovely - very well done

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