alwaysnever

[amuse]

you can never
go back
you can always
go back.

i believed that when i was eighteen when
i didn't know some flashbacks were forever
though they never let you in

when i didn't realize
that even if love changes its
face it never changes its
name

you can always call it by name

when i didn't know that
emotions could
incinerate could
sculpt me to my knees

set me in another place time
hold keep

i thought the curtain falling on act
two meant act three came next

and i was wrong

i was often wrong
but i wasn't when i believed you could
always/never go back

because you can always/never do a lot of things
as long as you know how to let go.



*weird, i forgot about the first 4 lines until tonight, i'd written them after graduating high school. just remembering something indefinable tonight...

[Avalive]

when i didn't know that
emotions could
incinerate could
sculpt me to my knees

set me in another place time
hold keep

i thought the curtain falling on act
two meant act three came next

Nice one. I like these lines.

Words flows like a river from ur heart.

[emily655321]

That's really awesome, Az. :thumbs_up Sounds like lyrics, actually. You should make it into a song. :D

[Koa]

you can never
go back
you can always
go back.



Feels like I'm doing something like that lately...

This poem is wonderful, one of the best of yours amuse... one of those that it's hard to read again cos too emotional... Very deep and true and...
And the relativity of that always/never, brings lots of thoughts.

I like this:

i thought the curtain falling on act
two meant act three came next

and i was wrong

[amuse]

since i can't properly thank you all for your kind words, please keep in mind i've sat at the computer for five minutes or so speechless, exhausted and needing to nap. but i want to say thank you before i do, because i don't want anyone to feel ignored, and your comments really are appreciated. i've rubbed my eyes a few times, like that would help, lol. still can't come up with anything, and so not i, but my poem thanks you.

you are all so kind! i had amuse reread me to look at what you saw. thanks much :) for your feedback.
-amuse's poem.

[amuse]

btw em, i don't know about making this into a song, i tried to do that with lyrics one fine summer day 15 years ago or more, and tortured my patient, long-suffering, wonderful brother with words that meant nothing and went nowhere, asking him all the while "do you like this, does it make a nice song?" we were on a walk, and he was stuck with his big sister singing off-tune - egads! i don't know how we came to be such great friends, perhaps because he was kind enough not to drown me?! ;)

[emily655321]

Hehehehe :D I can picture it. Well, if in the future you ever find yourself with a tune out of nowhere, you'll know what words to use. :nod:

[Miranda]

I too think this is great Amuse and like Emily think it could be made into a song.The words that Avalive has highlighted struck me too, how emotions can bring you down just like that - then remain in your memory so that journeying back to them, kind of locks you in with them and they replay over again in your mind. I like the phrase 'sculpt me to my knees'.

[sycho_warrior]

I like the poem, it really nice

[amuse]

:) thank you Miranda and sycho warrior. glad you like the phrase, Miranda. I was editing and all of a sudden i "saw" sculpt - well, a sculpture really, of someone kneeling in pain - and voila. was pleased - it works much better than "bring."

btw, i like your sig, sycho.