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Inertia (standard:poetry, 277 words)
Author: Hopeless RomeoAdded: Oct 04 2001Views/Reads: 3106/0Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
About the difficulty of stopping once you start to fall for her...
 



Inertia  (~~~ Denotes Change In Stanza) 

When i look on you (though you may flinch) 

i am aware of a spinning; and as i am careening 

i do wonder what you’re feeling-my heart is folding, 

contorting, and wandering, shaking and collapsing 

in your eyes. 

~~~ 

The butterflies (if that is their name); they do comprise 

a keen surprise as these feelings rise. Wings do impact 

my stomach’s walls; wincing from the enigmatically 

pleasurable pain i’m falling into you (though you may resist) 

ever trying (impossible, wishing) to take you with me. 

~~~ 

Will you come? 

No. 

When will i land? Where? 

I don’t know. 

I do so plummet (hopeless, watched); toward some end. 

What end would make worth while this drop? 

~~~ 

Why do men undertake such tasks? 

driven toward impossibility and holding to improbability 

pushing away tranquility 

with avarice for unattainability 

riding the envelope of capability 

that i might so plunge in the face of a possibility 

that my assumptions of hopelessness are wrong. 

~~~ 

Though were you not so out of reach 

(stretching, trying, extending to and past boundaries 

set by some force which keeps away, with a painful 

indefiniteness i can scarcely bare, the fabled golden ring 

of which i may never be possessive, the paradigm 

of a happiness i should but may never know, 

the prize of my eternal endeavor; 

the bottom of this bottomless pit into which i 

continually decline) 

still would I find myself falling, dropping (headlong, 

without control) into the details the world was never 

meant to perceive (though angels have been said 

to walk the earth); drawn by a gravity of your face, 

inertia the smell of your hair.


   


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