came into the kitchen while I was sitting reading a poem you wrote I didn't notice not at first there were tears in her eyes she sat beside me
Looking up my hand my fingers went to her hair
waited for the words
you have to know no-one has a business to look this beautiful at six in the morning but it's effortless for her somehow she just wakes like that
waiting for words
Nothing's easy nothing's safe especially while we sleep or wake to an empty space we need to talk we need to say
we're waiting for the words
There's a life behind me catching up and sometimes screaming past around my ears and headlong into what we have, together
Now, we'll make some tea - she had a dream, she said, and it left her scared - about ? Us, she said. You. And was still.
Waiting for the words
I'm waiting for the words
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I love that.
thank you.
beautiful.
don't be afraid.
kind lorianne - rated
for the bandicoot inside, mm
and gail with all the words too
thanks, wranglin' man
petuunia i try not to be but i'm petrified
i love it when you say fresh !
I love this, too: "There's a life behind me catching up and sometimes screaming past around my ears and headlong into what we have, together"
There's a whole life-story breathed into being in those few words...
Waiting, why must we have to wait?
Too much waiting.
scupper, mmhm - i was hushed - the words will come
savouring silence and waiting, wordsmith - learned, for sure.
thankyou for visiting
marguerite, barefoot, sure, but no-one's been pregnant 'round here for a very long time. and yes, i am impatient with some of what seems to pass for political commentary at times
may you always be touched by gentle loving hands, ablonde.
sometimes when we speak too soon it scares the truth away, i think.
still waiting for some words ...
what rat said to mole, near the end of the piper at the gates of dawn,
just before their memories disappeared
"There's a life behind me catching up and sometimes screaming past around my ears and headlong into what we have, together." --Love this.. Sometimes life catches up with us before we are ready, and one day we all hit the moment in our lives, when we are ready to let go of the past, that haunts us, and screams in our ears.
"LIFE is calling your name."-- Make it happen! Just Saying..
Thought I would catch up on some of what you have written. This is the first one I clicked on. Thank you for this one, brought back some great memories of my girls when they were six.
I will be back over for more reading soon. Got to go for now... LIFE is calling my name.. SMILES!!
i'd love to see it from a great height : i think it might resemble a fine afghani carpet. we'll never know, but it's nice to be a thread, at least, of something big - like the world.
lovely to meet you.
as always ...
when I come and read these words ...
in the silence ...
in the still ...
in the pause ...
until ...