To The Silent Lover Waiting Inside

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Dennis Ryan

Wellsville, New York

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Wellsville, New York

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July 22,2008

- written after speaking with my wife late at night, then watching her sleep

How to explain one's volubility
to the silent lover waiting inside?
You can't; you don't; you don't even try.
You just listen to her breathing as she sleeps.

Dennis Ryan

Monday, February 11, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: creativity,intuition,love and art,love and dreams,love and friendship,love and life,mute,psychology,questions,reflection

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The speaker of the poem, a poet, notes the fact that the lover who waits inside of you complements the real person you love, lying in bed right beside you.Though usually voluable, the poet is "lost for words" to explain things on this occasion.

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