Duely Noted Poem by Benjamin Feliciano

Duely Noted



I need this like a blank slate.
A wide and aching space with softly lit streets.
Here there are traces of your pleasant presence.
Straining to catch a whisper of regret as you replace me.
Did I mistake forever, or just neglect it?
You desire from me what I am loathe to give,
A life apart is difficult to live.
The only option you allow.
You want me to move on, but how?
When all I've pursued for nigh upon four years,
Is suggesting that I sever all bonds but one.
Rather than rejoice that not all is lost,
I am tormented by what my foolishness has cost.
An inexorable fact compresses all emotion to one.
What you've left behind runs through my veins,
And I cannot dismiss the thoughts of you as though it is done.
There exist a billion questions with no answer,
With you in mind, a trillion more.
Oh! How you dispel my advances yet remain,
A coquette with a scholar's brain.
For endless nights after I'll writhe with discontent,
At the cause of mistakes, and life, and fate which prevent.
How inglorious and unjust, to deny what we know ought to be.
There is no doubt of my love for you, nor your love for me.
I beg at last a final plea,
To never cease your love.
For I'd rather be shackled to loss,
Than gain isolation with the 'gift' of being freed.

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