Where Chance Takes its Warmth

Through all the ways I feel
while every other explanation
clouds my mind,
to be with you now
still fades into highlights
as the music of my soul.

Tinted bit by bit by what is lost
is tomorrow,
bathed in bright tracks
everyone can see leaving
as I tried to
for years and years.

Dancing in the air
are thoughts
that do not know your name
with voices
breathing doubt
into my senses.

Now will endless seconds
share the same sky
with the prelude
that resonates
from everything I know?

Does a chance watch a veil
climb the stairway of daydreams
with eyes
that give what is inside
of me away?

While I long to call what runs around me,
only minutes
of which I have no control,
and like a giant oak
I bend against my grain.

After circling through all the ways I feel
and dancing in the air
with these thoughts;
I find everything
has become tinted bit by bit
by what is found today.

So now I watch darkness
escape up the stairway of daydreams
while chance takes its warmth
from the veil as it falls.

Still, while I may long to call what we are,
miles away from love,
I find myself following
all the ways
I feel about you.

Reviews

[FJ Davis]

Will any genuine lover ever really be satisfied with, "for as long as it lasts?" Isn't that precisely what a true lover dreads the most--a foreseeable end to cherished closeness? Isn't that why one would hesitate to fully commit?
How the mouth doth protest what the soul would deny!
A brave, soul-searching poem, Neva. And yes...grandly, curiously, hauntingly beautiful.

[Lily Mae]

I love the "I find myself following all the ways I feel about you". We often don't allow ourselves these moments in life.. or not often enough.. Allowing the heart to be open to change :) xx Great write..x

[HopelesslyDevoted]

wow, this took me to a wonderful dream land of imagination

[unknown]

I believe that love will be closer to you someday. Lovely poem :-)

[Rediscovery]

I agree that the last two stanzas are the most significant of the poem, but overall, I like it all.

[Aidz]

The last two stanzas capture the whole essence of this write