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You Ought to Know
You ought to know
what’s true:
It’s that my heart
within these “after” years
is still, yes still,
filled up so solely with one want
one need,
one thought.
Despite the distancing of us
by time and circumstance,
in spite of everything that makes us separate,
apart,
all it ever thinks about,
all it ever calls to mind,
before I wake
before I sleep,
and in the empty moments in between
is you.
what’s true:
It’s that my heart
within these “after” years
is still, yes still,
filled up so solely with one want
one need,
one thought.
Despite the distancing of us
by time and circumstance,
in spite of everything that makes us separate,
apart,
all it ever thinks about,
all it ever calls to mind,
before I wake
before I sleep,
and in the empty moments in between
is you.
Published 10th Oct 2021
| Edited 4th Jul 2024
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10th Oct 2021 7:57pm
Thank you. But would you please say why you think the piece is beautiful? I want to know what literary and linguistic features of the piece work to make it so.
10th Oct 2021 11:07pm
This poem spoke loudly to me. At the start of covid I was lucky to meet a women from Russia in Thailand. Throughout the last 18 months our bound has grown stronger. Soon in early November we travel to Punta Cana and renew our lives.
10th Oct 2021 10:40pm
Love the way you’ve captured the ‘afterglow’ that oft comes with love as it waxes and wanes, only to come back around; full circle.
And that’s what makes your written work beautiful, when you channel your emotions in such a way that others can easily relate to !
Your writing is pure art…😇🙏
And that’s what makes your written work beautiful, when you channel your emotions in such a way that others can easily relate to !
Your writing is pure art…😇🙏
10th Oct 2021 11:47pm
