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Jerrybaldy
10-10-2014, 07:11 PM
You kissed my wrinkled forehead
Like a lady I had just slept with
Unsatisfied
By my lack of grasp
Of the situation and
What was required.
I had brought you flowers
Cut in their prime.
I loved you most likely
You can't disprove it
And I cannot write it in
My own blood.
I see you glance sideways
When you look down at me
from above.
You kiss my wrinkled forehead
And I wish I was young
If I have done you wrong
I never meant to
If meanings still mean anything
I was always on your side
Not mine.
When I cuddled a bear
The bear didn't care.
I need to do something stupid
Something stupider than before.
Stupider
Than Christ.
I can't sleep
I might miss something
Something that happens
In the hours when nothing happens.
Some day I will care
For nobody too much
But I will always love you
For now.

Haunted
10-15-2014, 08:52 AM
I almost missed this gem. The voice is distinct. There's the struggle again, a war waging inside in practically all of your poems, and this one brings it out quite poignantly.

AuntShecky
10-15-2014, 03:44 PM
But I will always love you
For now.

The Age of Irony lives.
The bear motif is what keeps this one out of the realm of banality. The voice and the verse are strong.