Untitled 30-9-06

All the unspoken words between us
Lingering in the tense atmosphere
That has become so familiar, too familiar
What my gaze on you cannot comprehend
What my heart cannot communicate to yours
When did it become so hard, too hard
To just be together with each other
Is it all just a game to test our wills
Against tears that come so easily, too easily.
So slowly we turn from the one we love
A pause, a heartbeat, a lingering regret
Then walk away, each step so heavy, too heavy
Goodbye...

- 30/Sept/2006


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I must really like the phrase "lingering regret" because I used it in my latest poem without remembering that it was also in this one. I don't doubt that it's in a number of my other poems too. Then again, there are a lot of recurring images/cliches/phrases in my poems. *sigh*

Also, it seems like my inspiration ran dry in the middle of 2006, huh? Lots of those dry spells coming up, unfortunately (or fortunately, because it means that I'll get to my 2010 poems that much faster and with less suffering through the overly mushy ones).