forever

I'll wear my hair long

and throw my lipstick away.

I'll go where you go

and rest where you rest.

I'll hold you so close

that the darkness

can't wedge itself

between us.

I'll feed your heart

and tempt your soul

and you will always

be enough

for me.

But some days . . .

when I'm sideways

and the weather

wants to change

I may look yonder

and see a shining star

 

I may smile

 

and chatter

 

and fly free

Reviews

[zig]

"I'll wear my hair long

and throw my lipstick away."

love the details in this, and i like the contradition, the fusion of both devotion and doubt, i think it reflects true of most life. not all moments are the same, we cant feel the same all the time. very well done,

zig

[quinfinn]

this is a very good analogy of the unsurety of what we may do at any given time and i love your perspective. nice write !

[lostboy]

we all must fly free we cant sing from behind bars.

[bluessadmood]

ohh dear this could never be put together more nicely..
i imagine thats what a woman would do when so loving,even more loving ..
I will rest where you too..feed your heart and play your soul
you are more than enough,and when some days..things change
i will always remember how it all started and how it all should be..with you
i was deeply touched,normally i have lots of words to comment,but here..there were little
great write

[Siddhartha]

Oh, you can have all of me but my spirit is mine only...This one soars high Emily. I find some redemption here.

[TamiViolet]

Ma ma mia... I keep stumbling across your work.... It's as though it was supposed to be. I shall throw the lipstick away.... That's cool, Emily. Truly.

[Fran Marie]

I may look yonder

and see a shining star

Sheer beauty in this piece of poetic prose

[arbitrary jane]

oh emily.
this burns. grand.
i feel in you the same straining with paradox that eats at me. in love with both the small, wonderful things of each bright day... and too, with those distant, insistent, stars, with the universe and all the unimaginably large, unknowable, exploding things.
smile and chatter and fly. and, too, hold close and rest.

[Jeff Loquist]

forever is a very long time, this is a gem of inspiration

[Ed Hart]

woman!

[oneZtwoLLs]

I can relate to your poem, how it's okay to be comfortable, but sometimes a longing for something more, something new makes you reach for something more.

"I'll hold you so close that the darkness can't wedge itself between us."

In times of trial, it's good to have someone there to cling to.

Beautiful.