Oh how long these years have been! When we thought that time moved forward Marching to the incessant beat of a military drummer But time has fooled us The pounding was only in our minds Caught in a time-like loop In the curves of time and space The never-ending infinities flashing past our eyes again and Again Indistinguishable from the flat space we knew before Gravity drew me to you so strongly But I resisted Pulling away, far away I got lost in the great wide world Lost without a friend to travel with me I tried to give my heart to the vagabonds at the crossroads, Trusting in their knowledge of love and life Trusting that they would keep me safe I lost my heart somewhere at those crossroads It lay in the dust, trodden on, kicked aside The vagabonds didn't see any value in what I had to offer I was more lost than ever The paths behind me were closed, blocked off, barricaded But without a heart How could I go forward? I ended up choosing all the wrong paths All the wrong forks I never noticed That there was anyone else on the road with me My wanderings drew a circle in the earth Once again, I arrived at the crossroads I had lost myself But my heart... My heart was now gone Somehow...my essence had disappeared I stood there for a while Staring at the spot where I thought I could start again How could I lose myself again? My weary feet moved once again Down the path I had gone before Habitually tracing out their memories Each footstep remapped the past Time-loops had caught me Once again gravity pulled me forward Imperceptibly toward an unknown end A destination? The view before me was veiled A haze of impenetrable black Another choice to make Another crossroads To venture into the mist Into the unknown Or to circle around again Trapped in my past? Gravity pulled me in And I took a new road Past the event horizon Past the infinite wall And the world looked no different There was no wall at my back Only the road stretched out behind me But when I tried to retrace my steps My hand met an obstruction Like a child outside a candy store I looked at that lost road Longing for what was outside of my grasp There was only one way left to go And that was forward I felt a stirring in the wind Something called my name with an unseen voice An unheard face A feeling awoke within me Gently coaxed and caressed to blossoming An eagerness that I scarcely remembered possessing Arose and pulled me forward In the distance I perceived a presence Neither moving nor standing still A soul as lost as I And there is something... Intangibly familiar... About all this And I am falling into you again For you were the one who recaptured my essence Rescued my heart from the vagabonds All those years ago You found my soul at the edge of the road And you saw only perfection Looked past the footprints, the road stains The scars of being used for someone else's pleasure Your gentle hands lifted the delicate fibers of my essence And it buried itself in your body Embracing your warmth Winding around your soul Becoming an intrinsic part of your nature, Without you even noticing Falling into your gravity well is like coming home again After these long years
initial reaction to this poem was "ahhh so many words!", but then i've written some stuff as long as that too. read it though. did the heart grow back in the end?
Oh, how epic! There may be a lot of words, but every last one is perfectly wonderful. I bet that if you showed this poem to "you," he would be flattered and dumbfounded. Very powerful ideas and imagery. This poem should be published one day.
