A Love Poem For the Emotionally Impotent

what do you care?

i love you . . .

compulsively.

I cannot look away.

　

irrelevant, is my happy;

monumental is my apathy.

towards others

impotent, i know i am emotionally.

i feel with numb claws. 

                none the less

the feeling of you waking next to me...

still means the world to me.

(quietly)

every morning (quietly)

i search, very deeply

(i know)

for something,

somewhere, deep and down in there -

i know it's there.

(it has to be)

the reason . . . 

for you and i,

this, "nothing ordinary".

(but always there)

my good dead memory.

                "i carry your heart with me..."

                                   -- ee cummings 

Author's Note

Reviews

[DIVYA]

Way more convincing than the usual p***y-deep love with grating emotional displays, endearments & melodrama.

[Davidgeo]

My goal was to sound like an eternally scorned lover. Something I think every single human above a certain age hides away... even from themselves. I will never not envy the folks that marry their high school sweetheart. Though, their is a drawback and it's a thing I like to think of as the innocent's inability to deal with absolute tragedy. Shakespeare wrote a play about it I think... you may know it.