Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The Room Is Nearly Empty















I already know what your plans for the weekend are.

I've been thoroughly briefed on the weather.

I've extrapolated your metaphors to illustrate your point.

I've heard your dissertation on what's wrong with the world.

I've paraded along next to your monologue.

So please. For me

Fill this silence with the words you promised to say.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

The love you want to hear is the love you should feel in your heart.
I can't help you with that.

Anonymous said...

Hear me now: the things I promised you I would tell you resist words; as surely as my heart resists letting you go.
I tell you things I don't even know how to say. I tell you things only you can understand.

Listen closely, how can you miss it? It thunders, it roars, it holds the silence close.

Sit in the silence, let it speak to you. Let it lead you where you need to be.

SaysMindy said...

There is nothing more frustrating than hearing everything but what you need to know.

Anonymous said...

I need a hug

n-neverland

Brittany said...

It hurts to be left in silence.

Anonymous said...

the words you want to hear will be said

zonedin said...

I love myself enough to know when I've been knocked off my axis. I was trying to tell you "I love you" but it seemed like a moot point, so I never got to the point. I can sit in the silence and smile because I know how I feel and refuse to let everybody trample on my heart and beat the bloody truth out of it. It doesn't even matter to you. Why can't I just keep it to myself? Why must you mock and kill it? I'm not good at defending myself, I'd just rather walk away, but I won't let you go. I'll carry you with me wherever our paths lead.

phages said...

they said this rut i was in was a joke and that i never should have left your side.

Anonymous said...

Well, let me tell you Mr., you are not with me, just in case one day you have a big disillusionment ;)

Anonymous said...

I asked you to find me when you learned what you needed. I keep rushing you. That's why you are silent... or do you love me? If I'm a bird... are you a bird?

FeverDream said...

i cannot give you what you want, for i know that you want it so, so badly. i can tell you that things will be okay with you; with me; with us. but i cannot love you like you deserve. [that's a lie: i just cannot love you at all] forgive me; don't forgive me but please, forgive yourself.

meh said...

how can you think I'm silent?

zonedin said...

Resting silently always draws me to you.

Anonymous said...

You've made the the (non)-silence between us high art. Such a cop out. Oh hey. Happy birthday.

birdmad girl said...

I'll never learn what I need to.
You know where I am. Come if you want to.
I keep rushing, into a wall.

I stick to silence because I love you. But, here. I cannot keep it all back.
Like trying to defy the ocean.


what if I'm not a bird? I think you'd still be a bird.
which must make me a bird?

thatguy said...

You're not rushing into a wall there just an unmatched intensity in your emotion.