Don'T You Know Poem by Viola Grey

Don'T You Know

Rating: 4.1


Don't you know,
this silence is like fire
slowly peeling layers
off my soul,
uncovering ashes once sheltered
but now scattering
on the cold breeze of your absence.

I held you closer than ever,
only to feel you shudder, slip,
the fade away.
I guess some things should never
be grasped too tightly,
but within walls of desire
lay shadows of desperation.

Don't you know
this room feels so much lighter
when you fill the space with careful words,
uncovering reckless laughter.
There's one reason
the air thins without you now,
but I can't quite
catch it.

21/09/08

COMMENTS OF THE POEM

absence perhaps is the most perseverant and pervasive presence There's one reason the air thins without you now, but I can't quite catch it aroha, r

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*Trusting You* 12 June 2009

Don't you know, this silence is like fire oh that is so true. good job V. Becca

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Tom Balch 28 September 2008

shudder, slip and fade away, not good for love, 10 from Tom

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Emancipation Planz 28 September 2008

I hope you know Viola you fused this one hook, line, catcher-on and skinner.. 0800 Space 4 Grafting

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Saint Cynosure 21 September 2008

This is so good that I had to read it again and again and again...

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Kris Smith 21 September 2008

Beautiful write my friend you have pored your heart over the screen for all of us to read and what a beautiful heart it is Chris 10

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