Poetrie: Pained Resignation

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Poetrie #3. An auto-Poetrie. Because I felt like sharing. Maybe I'll share more...

Together

by uselessness

In the idleness of thought today

I dreamt I held your hand

And though this was an unexpected image

I preferred not to shake it away

Like any other careless daydream

Where these usual ideas emerge

From a murky haze of fancy

Instead I found clarity in your visage

The warmth of your fingertips

The trust of your grip

Taken aback by your fragrant presence

And mesmerized by the eternal sparkle in your eye

That glistened just this once for me alone

A scene hedged in a moment

That will never be replayed

Most likely

But permit me to dream such wild fiction

Can we pretend it carries no shame

And play a game of suppositions, what if...

Imagine that I were any other

As I pretend we've never met

Two strangers thrown into the same chaos

But this time is something more

Against all odds, order springs forth

Knowledge replaces curiosity

Stability devastates spontaneity

Even happy we're strangely confounded

The irony of life ever balancing the scales

I think I would rather go on dreaming

And see you every day

If only from a distance

Maybe we'll never witness perfection

At least not together

But know that I enjoyed the thought

And wonder if you've ever done the same