Slipping through their fingers
She wants to give him the gift
Of knowing her
He longs to take the gift she gives
And understand
Into his hands she trusts herself…
….And falls
He cannot hold the form she gives;
…she falls
She thinks he let her go
And now she’s hurt
Dismayed at his ineptitude
He withers
She thinks him without love or care.
She hurts
He withers from his own stupidity,
But loves
She’s reminded now of other times
She fell
He knows the bruises multiply;
He is afraid
She will not trust as much again;
The less to bruise.
If allowed, he’ll try again, so hard,
To hold her safe.
She wants to give
He wants to hold
But for both it´s getting harder
About this poem
when relationships break down it is never quite as it seems
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Submitted by j-gordon1 on May 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 858 |
Words | 137 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 2, 1 |
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