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I miss you

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I miss you.
            I fell down the stairs yesterday
            pretending your arms were waiting
but everything aches

write me just one syllable
half a breath, a whispered key
that will unlock my
                        twisted reveries.

I am:
                        running fingers through my hair
            running lonely through the memory
of your hands
running through me

(my mind is an unstable radio
            defiantly playing your songs
            ignoring ignorant angry callers
            and waiting for the right lyrics to come on.)

so come on,
come and be the wish I make tonight
even though people are stealing past my window, blowing
different wishes into the air---

            isn't it enough

            that I just can't fall down the stairs anymore?
            tomorrow it could be an elevator shaft,
because I miss you.
not much wordplay in this one. just some of my raw and tired thoughts.




recently I almost fooled myself into thinking I'd stopped missing him. this wonderful poem throws that back in my face.


and. I'm probably being paranoid, but I'll bet there are people who read my poems and go, what the heck is up with that punctuation or lack of capital letters or whatever. I think of punctuation in poetry as a way to make points and meanings and not just to follow structure or make things easier for the reader. Reading a poem is supposed to be hard. The poet, most of the time, is not writing for your convenience. And I use caps when I like..in fact, it'd be nice to write a poem completely in caps sometime. I'll have to try it.

okay end rant. sorry, it wasn't directed toward anyone in particular. I'm just in an obstinate mood.
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