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Love at First (And all Over Again)
by Trisha De GraciaI want to swim into you
and explore your capacity to feel
to see
and to taste...
To hear how your words curve off
lips so smooth and so sweet.
I swear
your hands could bring me to shore
from the worst of all storms.
You could send me-
or send me away.
It makes no mark on the beautiful, permanent scar
you've inflicted
(willing or not)
I succumbed to these bouts
these overdue sighs and the never goodbyes.
And just when I think
I can't love like this
not ever again
and not any harder
I fall for you
(your sweet caresses turning the dusk into day,
your smiled fixed in the dim lamp light).
My words trip and fumble and bounce.
-We're not logical.
Smiles have wept and have sighed.
-You've been quizzical.
Through all this aching
regretting and breaking
you seem to collect all my fragments
and scrap me together
-tell me I'm beautiful 'til I remember
and damn it if I dont believe every word that you say.
You've regained me this way
and I'll never turn back.
07/11/2004 Author's Note: "I could watch you smile forever"
**I'm smiling because you love me**
Posted on 07/12/2004
Copyright © 2024 Trisha De Gracia
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Barbara Griffith on 07/12/04 at 05:41 PM Now if this isn't the best compliment in the world! "-tell me I'm beautiful 'til I remember/ and damn it if I dont believe every word that you say." Those lines are utter brilliance, Trish. And I mean that. |
| Posted by J. P. Davies on 07/12/04 at 11:39 PM *Agrees with Barbara*.....*smiles* |
| Posted by Alisa Js on 10/03/07 at 08:44 AM I can relate to this one in such a personal way. You have a great talent for expressing raw emotions.. aloha to you from this side of paradise.. alisa |
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