- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Why I Love You More
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Click hereOne day you tumbled from the window
and even though I heard a sound,
a muffled thud, like something heavy landing in the yard.
I didn't know for several minutes,
and when I did,
I ran
and saw
you sprawled so still
below.
My screams filled up the neighborhood.
And later,
when you moved,
and cried,
and called for me,
mouth filled with dirt,
sprinkler swishing back and forth,
I didn't know that you would live.
So grateful to hold you.
That brief moment,
thinking you were gone,
is why I love you more.
- COMMENTS
LeBrozabout 17 years agoVery well done — a story to which any parent can relate — a heart-stopping moment we all dread.
KOLKOREabout 17 years agoThe most direct poem so far. It follows the immediacy and the urgency of the theme. Simple existence, no time for delicate introspections. I could sense the heart pounding; the panic, the shattering sense that everything we have can be taken from us with no warning and if we are lucky given back to cherish.
