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Reflection

February 28, 2011
By ComputerKnerd PLATINUM, Richmond, Virginia
ComputerKnerd PLATINUM, Richmond, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity&rdquo;<br /> - Ulysses S. Grant


A metronome knocks

from one side of my chest

to the other, wanting someone

to keep count. I don’t thank you

enough for listening, for your blossoming

magnolias that hear my rhythm.

You are a painter showing your work

to the blind. I’m so sorry for being late

but if you let me in to your exhibit,

I will stare at every piece for years.

We have been bleeding fingers, cut

from splitting the envelope, expecting

love letters, discovering only notice

of collection.

There’s a siren in the distance,

and we’ve spent our lives like

two prayers for the victim. We

have always been two roses

on the wreath at a military funeral,

loyal to a fault for unnamed masses

smothering regrets for greater good,

the only sweet aroma coming

during a sadness most will never

make sense of, causing the crowd

to flinch as two bullets in this

twenty-one gun salute, wearing

our ballistic scars together, arched

f***ing perfect towards the sun, landing

on cemetery lawn, beautifully flawed.



And this love, we pull away from each other,

leaning back on opposite ends of a wishbone

instead of pushing towards one another

to deflate the fear-down pillow that keeps

our hearts apart.

We are city-Spring;

You are a highway wildflower,

lavender under exhaust, waving

unnoticed, and I’m the rain nobody wants,

drops dragging parts of you with me

underground



and darkness has never been

so magnificent.


The author's comments:
You make me feel so rite, but we have traveled in so many different directions

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