Subtlety Be-damned

You care, but you don't know how to show me,

I feel, but I have to suck it up, move forward, deal

Because it's for you I feel, not the man I want you to be.

I don't want your sentiments unless they are honest

And your REALNESS, that's what drew me to you...

Made me flick those other suitors aside like fleas,

Makes me forget that I'm not supposed to trust.

You care, and in placid subtleties you show me.

 

Passion too easily expressed, my tongue the traitoress

Never letting you doubt for a moment what I see in you:

The only worthy recipient of my affection and tenderness.

You know I don't want you for a day, or for an hour

And so I learn a lesson in humility and pious patience

Though my heart longs to be a cunning temptress,

You've made a plateau of my emotions, here restrained,

For passion is too easily expressed, and I can't take this...

 

You care, but you don't know how to show me,

I feel, and my feelings are bound and shackled,

Because I won't stop feeling as long as I can see

That if you didn't care, you'd simply turn away.

I can see it, but I want to feel it come to life.

The basis is strong, the stage set, our hearts free.

Make me forget I'm not supposed to love anymore.

You care, and I yearn for more than your subtlety.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[AK]

Very strong piece, very strong.
It's strange how so many here seem to share the same thoughts and experiences. Just once in my life I would like to hear and see and feel and understand, all at once, the "REALNESS" you mentioned. Not just little snippets here and there, ya know? I mean make me know, without any question or doubt, that I matter...
It almost aggravates me sometimes.

Thank you for this important piece.

[DeeWV]

Your words tell the reader subtlety has no place in the quest for love.
Tell me, yell it from the rooftops. Great message here.

DeeWV

[Kat Williams]

Reads as a letter to a master from a sub/slave..then again that might be where I'm at. I like