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a fool's game
by Kimberly Bowenstumbling and tumbling
faster than a tongue can fixate and recreate
the perfect stanza or line to say
forty letters penned for you
terrified, too paralyzed to send just one
catch a deep breath and hold it
until the pain has faded away
twas a fool’s game to play
loved once, torn apart
loved twice, ripped asunder
came up for air, hit hard and blown over
miscalculation of the gravest sense
no chance of a deletion of your scent
not a single desire to truly try
there are lies scattered all over my eyes
but the truth beats through every heart crack
04/08/2011 Posted on 04/08/2011
Copyright © 2024 Kimberly Bowen
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Kara Hayostek on 03/05/12 at 09:43 PM Sad poem :-( Heart break sucks. |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 04/12/14 at 04:03 PM Excellent expression, choice and arrangement of words giving it great flow. |
| Posted by Ken Harnisch on 04/14/14 at 02:32 PM and yet it is the heartbreak which stirs us to write...the pain which inspires us to speak its name. Been there and know how you feel Kimberly. Glad you were able to put it in words,as painful as it must have been to write them. |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 01/13/15 at 12:37 PM I love the line, ---- no chance of a deletion of your scent. my sentiments exactly. it is the lover's scent left in the wake which you can't wash out of your soul, no matter what metaphorical detergents there are to try. |
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