Tonight
I’m going to be in love tonight
under this hidden moon
in this welcome season
just tonight
as this house creaks like
seventy year old bones,
as murders grow in awful hands,
as no one sets foot on
this same carpet.
I’m going to kiss warm lips tonight
of a living man
who breathes cold opinion
and holds me in his eyes,
who clears distance from hollow
rooms,
who says nothing,
who lays unknowingly, tonight, beside me
with no one around to overhear us.
I am going to make love tonight
to a suspect of betrayal,
to my heart’s gravity,
to a memory that has been
soaking in the fall.
Listen. It is perfectly safe.
Look around.
No one is near. It has been years
since I fell asleep with
my skin underneath him, falling,
falling in to some
confession, and tonight
I will not hear a sliver of his voice
and he will not know
that tonight’s moon will
cover up his absence,
for me.
Posted on February 10, 2013, in Poetry and tagged being alone, connection, Desire, distance, emptiness, intimacy, keeping distance, Literature, love, memory, missing someone, Moon, Poem, poetry, Relationships, Sex, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 22 Comments.
Beautifully done. Many gems in this piece like ‘as the house creaks like
seventy year old bones’ which conjures up this image of an old-old house and ‘I’m going to be in love tonight
under this hidden moon
in this welcome season
just tonight’ waxes and then wanes in intensity and then back again, like a pendulum. Loved that expression.
Thank you
Thanks for reading!!
Kill! Go for the kill!
I’m loving Maggie more and more each day. Will definitely share this.
Thank you!!!!
Beautiful. touching, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reading!! It is completely my pleasure!
Amazing! You certainly are talented.
Beautiful! Thank you. PS: I nominated you for a blogger award
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Nice.
“to a memory that has been soaking in the fall”
Very nice.
I also like the way that “tonight” is a hyperlink on my reader to…nowhere, (and just as well, for what could that possibly link to?), but that this accents “tonight” in a wonderful way.
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i love the choice of words!
Beautiful
Beauitful! You’re so talented! Keep up the amazing work
I always enjoy reading your posts.
I love the energy.
I have always enjoyed reading your work. Your words breath of fresh air and cleanses the minds of millions. Beautiful poetry.
I have returned, and I will be posting my new blog today stay tune.
I will not hear a sliver from his life, and he will not know that tonight’s moon will
cover up his absence,for me. they are never there when needed!
Especially love, “who clears distance from hollow rooms”
Very well written.
A beautiful poem!
Nice writing.
that’s an interesting one, and apt for V Day.
a sliver of his voice – arresting!
Your work is amazing. Excellent writing! You should, if you haven’t already, publish your works!