this was for Ris


On A Plane


Writing this makes it real.
You're the only one I feel I really
Owe something to

Which is why this is a one-way telegram.

As usual there's whirring in the background,
I can't focus enough to do what I should.
This feels so different because this isn't the second copy this time
I'm writing it straight up, typing away

Feels like I'm typing everything into oblivion.
You need to be strong my Piranha
I will always sing into your ear,
Interrupt when I shouldn't
Go completely silent when my wounds decide to show

This is where everything merges
I now know, you understand that
I can see where everything fits,
Can trace the path back to now
And understand why what happened did

It doesn't make it easier though
When I tell you it's impossible
To be as consumed as this, I know you feel it
Perhaps not the same, but I can see your footprints

Marceau, I can feel my hands on glass sheets
Crossing at points, diverging light
Into the little prism shattering at dawn.
I altered the word choice.
Words just flow like the Nile waiting for me

What other way is there?
What I had is exhausted
And as for what I have, peanut shells just
Crunch under my feet.

An insect crawls across the screen
I look down, and it is gone,
On its way to occupy some crevice
We are unable to see unless
We look close enough to want to

My impatience unfolds
The date keeps changing, and I cannot decide
Things keep getting in my way
Fields of turbulence, signs I should not follow.

One who added a shade of green
Must now take my position
And be the marble now
Til you are nourished with understanding

No more questions,
Take a walk down what once was
Sprint down the runway with your wheels stretched out
Friction igniting as you keep going
For fear that if you stop you will be ash

Fly for me,
Take all that I am
I shall not wear the scarlet adornment
I will not parade the truth
For it is all with you now

Think quick, my Peter
Make me your Neverland
To not leave behind,
To grow without, within

You drew me back with a straw's breath
Buzzing from the other side
I had nearly reached
I couldn't let you know this time

Calculating, no
I like being the shelter
To hide what others do not need to know
Until the very last
What comes out once I have landed

It will not matter then
For I could not be
I could not twinkle in the yonder
I had to take a nosedive
Face value is mostly worthless

For once we break the surface edge
We can truly see possibilities
For everything we are about to forfeit




Poetry by Caila Ihle
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Written on 2006-09-10 at 04:36

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Saga
A wonderful description of feelings, all evenly dispersed in a beautiful fashion, I love this!!!
2006-09-10


Zachary P. B.
i loved this caila! the realism and narration of this, it's like a letter, unsent, but written purposefully, maybe bitterly... but still written...

i connect with this one... bookmarked.

z
2006-09-10