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Parallel
by Lizz ScottWe live our lives
Parallel.
Going about the day
with blinders over our eyes.
Never seeing you.
Never seeing me.
Silently we dream.
The same dream.
Yet we never sleep.
Living our lives
so desperately parallel.
You pray for me,
while I cry for you.
11/14/2002 Posted on 11/15/2002
Copyright © 2025 Lizz Scott
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Christina Bruno on 01/01/03 at 12:42 AM "You pray for me, while I cry for you">...Brilliant. |
| Posted by Richard Vince on 11/08/08 at 03:19 PM beautifully heartbreaking. a very worthy POTD. |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 11/08/08 at 03:57 PM Really so well done and a better reflection of reality than most of us admit. |
| Posted by Jared Orlando on 11/08/08 at 05:35 PM Congrats on POTD. Unfortunately I know this feeling exactly; heartbreaking indeed. Great write. |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 11/08/08 at 10:41 PM Excellent poem all round Liz in how it speaaks in concrete terms, yet also radiates with the abstract, synchronicity and the paranormal. |
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