poemranker ::Conversation Unspoken by JuddNelson

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Conversation Unspoken

Member since 2002 · Posted 19 May 2002 · Edited 19 May 2002 · 4 comments

This isn't poetry. This isn't a love poem. This isn't one man's vague attempts at getting you to notice him in a crowd of the hollow-eyed dressed by proxy group mentality hard trance drug abusing charismaless painless pointless males you hang around with. That's not good enough for you. This isn't a cry for help. This isn't a suicide note. This isn't desperation Because I can live without you but I don't really want to I want you around me permanently I want to know your opinion whatever it may be see your smile rise brush away your tears instead of my own. That's not what I'm trying to do. This isn't a stanzaed chat-up line This isn't an incitement for dating This isn't Hallmark academia Saccharine verse dead on the page flowers that wilt after a month when the thoughts remain long after and the problems never seem to go away and the credit card bills come in at the month?s end and I wonder why did I spend ?50 on flowers? and then I your face floats back into memory and how your eyes lit up and I remember why. That's what I've done for you.

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4 comments

[5] hoopoe 19-May-02/6:40 AM Reply
first draft
[8] necroscope7 10-Jun-02/10:59 AM Reply
Nice
[6] -=SeTTle=- 10-Jul-02/2:42 PM Reply
Wait wait wait here's my immitation of Martin Lawrence: "It is clear you have *women problems*"
[9] Roisin 28-Jul-02/7:48 AM Reply
A beautiful poem, it would work on me!Did it work for you?Bit about brushing away tears made a shiver run down my spine.