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Mind Like an Island
Extra, extra baby
Read it all in papers
Hidden away safely
If you read them
Then you've read my mind
Mind like an island
No man is supposed to be
If you read my mind
Please, will you marry me
And I'll read yours in kind
How did it happen
That it all got shut away?
Good old way back when
My heart was out all day
Now I'm stranded on my island
I know I've got my walls
Built up pretty high
When my defense falls
Though I can't imagine why
I'll be less a far out land
And more a place to play
Read it all in papers
Hidden away safely
If you read them
Then you've read my mind
Mind like an island
No man is supposed to be
If you read my mind
Please, will you marry me
And I'll read yours in kind
How did it happen
That it all got shut away?
Good old way back when
My heart was out all day
Now I'm stranded on my island
I know I've got my walls
Built up pretty high
When my defense falls
Though I can't imagine why
I'll be less a far out land
And more a place to play
Published 30th Jan 2019
Author's Note
I'm happily married, so this poem is not about me, btw!
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Anonymous
30th Jan 2019 3:21am
Edible One,
Whether it's about you or not, it's still a beautiful look into a woman's mind, and her relationships. There are some really fantastic lines there. I loved that.
Matthew.
Whether it's about you or not, it's still a beautiful look into a woman's mind, and her relationships. There are some really fantastic lines there. I loved that.
Matthew.
31st Jan 2019 9:36pm
30th Jan 2019 6:15am
Echo Elusive Sleepfall. What sweeter plea for a man to commit than the last lines (which would have been an incentive in days most couples waited for marriage to have sex):
I'll be less a far out land
And more a place to play
I'll be less a far out land
And more a place to play
31st Jan 2019 9:37pm
Sounds old fashioned, yes? Lots of young teen women are innocent and reserved like that.
30th Jan 2019 7:38am
Excellent, sometimes we worry too much about not letting anyone in that we get trapped and feel all alone...glad this is fiction. Btw big families are great and very rare these days. Both my parents come from familes of 9 and my sister has 8.
31st Jan 2019 9:38pm
Truly a universal problem in some ways. Men and women know this feeling sooner or later.
Anonymous
- Edited 16th Jul 2019 12:45pm
30th Jan 2019 3:58pm
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31st Jan 2019 9:35pm
