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Free verse № 1002

Waiting to understand

by Cha no Onna

Member since 2002 · Posted 17 Apr 2002 · Edited 3 Dec 2002 · 5 comments

How do you love someone Who doesn't know what love is Who can't see herself with your eyes Who becomes only a cold, empty room? You told me that you love the truth of me Not in so many words, but that was The meaning I found. And still I, Quiet as a pilot light, Wait to understand. Through yesterdays I think I grieved for myself. It hurt, knowing suddenly that there was no love Here in my heart, which holds you and him And so many others, For me.

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5 comments

[9] ifni 17-Apr-02/7:17 PM Reply
just, so. yeah.
[4] silvertongueddevil 11-May-02/4:27 AM Reply
yesterwhen? i really have to todaywhy your use of homemade neologisms. keep it up and in a couple of hundred years we won't be able to understand a word you're saying. now let's see a poem where each line is more like "quiet as a pilot light" and less like "it hurt..."
[5] nentwined 20-Jun-02/12:51 PM Reply
yesterwhen? yesterwhen. I like that.

the piece is interesting, but I couldn't get into it.
[5] forestchild7 19-Jul-02/6:32 PM Reply
I know it sucks, doesn't it??
[5] horus8 29-Aug-02/12:19 AM Reply
you're fired.cuz i love you.s