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struck
by Cassandra Leighlooking upon you i see at last
the glorification of God
intrinsic in the human form
you move with such quiet violence i can only compare you to
breaking glass because that is what i am
when your eyes fall on me
however briefly
before you look away
afraid
and i was willing to destroy the world i had built to
have my chance to know you but i know you
are but a mere shadow
of your appearance (that of Apollo)
though by God the way you move
is like Objectivism and the Apocalypse both together and none
and i take my name from your lips
husky (it's all i ever get from you)
and you didn't mean it but i
felt like eons were passing between our hands and i will
mold it with my admiration
into all of the things that will never come to pass
between us 08/27/2006 Author's Note: HT
Posted on 08/27/2006
Copyright © 2024 Cassandra Leigh
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 08/28/06 at 11:59 AM I've felt this same way, and couldn't find the words...
You've found them and they zoom so perfectly (into the center where it all began!)
struck
brilliantly!
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| Posted by Steven Kenworthy on 12/08/06 at 03:01 AM incredible capture of the unique feelings that hit us in a situation like this. i feel the angst, the shaded wonder...the hope fading. intense and raw enough that it doesn't feel too much like a "poem" poem. the fragile human condition of being head over heels for someone who has no intentions of falling similarly for you...so real. a good poem in my opinion captures reality at its peaks. you've done that here, and i like it. hurrah! |
| Posted by Steven Kenworthy on 12/08/06 at 03:03 AM incredible capture of the unique feelings that hit us in a situation like this. i feel the angst, the shaded wonder...the hope fading. intense and raw enough that it doesn't feel too much like a "poem" poem. the fragile human condition of being head over heels for someone who has no intentions of falling similarly for you...so real. a good poem in my opinion captures reality at its peaks. you've done that here, and i like it. hurrah! |
| Posted by Steven Kenworthy on 12/08/06 at 03:04 AM incredible capture of the unique feelings that hit us in a situation like this. i feel the angst, the shaded wonder...the hope fading. intense and raw enough that it doesn't feel too much like a "poem" poem. the fragile human condition of being head over heels for someone who has no intentions of falling similarly for you...so real. a good poem in my opinion captures reality at its peaks. you've done that here, and i like it. hurrah! |
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