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mmaria
03-03-2009, 02:58 PM
You and I, my love, stand alive
under the sky where people arrive
not by trains or by miracle of claps,
but by sitting between two steps.

We stand here and watch the world
going around like sighs first, second... third.
You and I, my love, have come here
under the sky, close to us, very near.

What will be with us, my love?
With us under the sky above?
Shall we fly into it, a woman and a man,
or shall we stay here agin?

PrinceMyshkin
03-03-2009, 05:39 PM
You and I, my love, stand alive
under the sky where people arrive
not by trains or by miracle of claps,
but by sitting between two steps.

We stand here and watch the world
going around like sighs first, second... third.
You and I, my love, have come here
under the sky, close to us, very near.

What will be with us, my love?
With us under the sky above?
Shall we fly into it, a woman and a man,
or shall we stay here agin?

That final rhyme - man/agin - rings awkwardly especially by contrast with the graceful lyricism of the rest of this. It reads like an old, beloved ballad.

mmaria
03-04-2009, 03:16 AM
Thanks, Prince, for paying attention to my poem. It's funny, last night I had a dream about an old castle and a prince and princess in it, he, he...