Delirium

This poem discusses slipping out of a seemingly shared existence with another person while sleep deprived, and realizing that reality will never be as wonderful as it seems through rose-tinted eyes.

You are beautiful

We are beautiful

This is absolutely beautiful

But it it hurts

Yet there are no questions to be asked

My eyes are yours

Your hair is everywhere

E pluribus unum

Maybe if I ask you nicely

I can stay here forever

Inside your head inside your hair

98.6 is just warm enough

But it hurts! And I’m scared!

I am hurt and you are fine?

I am scared and you are smiling?

We’re separate people, after all.

It only makes sense.

I’m not your brain;

I’m just in a corner.

And we’re nothing the same;

I’ll never know you.

Not really.

Not like I did then.

We’re not the same.

It only makes sense.

Yet the sun in the middle of the sky

Is not as high as I feel in this moment

The way your eyes meet mine

With love in your flowering gaze

Like I love myself with passion.

And then it all leaves.

I am one.

And we are two.

And I’ll never be as vast as the universe ever again.

It only makes sense.

I am small!

I am puny!

Existence is vast!

And we were a vessel!

But I can never travel like we did then!

Because you didn’t even know!

Why didn’t you feel it?

How could you miss the entirety of the cosmos?

Because it never happened.

We were never one.

We’re always less than that.

Two.

It only makes sense.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

This is almost a question and answer game, a search for information that you know you might never have or... know already. Strange how being with another person, one subjugates yet flies free in order to breathe, to think.. or accepts that being less will become more or less nothing. Perhaps or maybe!

This is such a well-written seemingly space sequence.. space to express thoughts still unravelling or ...

[TheUnrulyWriter]

Thank you for the review. Yes, this poem is a sort of question and answer game. I was questioning the true nature of my relationship with the other person, but deep inside, I think I new the answer already. I was just to scared to admit it to myself.

[emmajoy]

Such an upsetting situation to be in; hope things sorted out without too much hurt.

[TheUnrulyWriter]

Things are better. Not quite how I hoped things would go, but it could be worse. Thank you for your kindness :)

[emmajoy]

You're welcome

[Michael G. Smith]

A very unique style here which fits the thought process. I feel you in the sense that my partner and I are night and day. I get a sense you like me are the dreamer, philosopher with battles of insecurities. I like the added Latin phrase. May I suggest one thing? I in writing started using perhaps instead of maybe. Share your ideas on that with me.

[TheUnrulyWriter]

You captured my personality pretty well! I do like using the word perhaps, but in this specific place I wanted a word that sounded kind of softer. I don't know if that even makes any sense, haha. Thank you for the review and the advice!!!