Your whole identity
I can write it
Then erase it
Fearing its existence
To knowing eyes
Why can't it stay?
I'm embarrassed
Acknowledging
You're in my thoughts
Write it over and over
Just to erase
Because it brings you there
It reveals a drawer
Files of memories
Yet no physical presence
It's just some letters
Organized
Attractive ways
Forming clumps
Characters
With characteristics
Your very being
Locked inside
Don't let them see
I've written a page
Full of your name.
II.
A list
Unorganized alphabet
Figure
Nothing
Numbers without explanation
Who could live in that label
Graphite squiggles
Mean what to me
Without it, you're _______
Without you, it's _______
So many lives
Live in a list of names
Names
Names
Each is a link
To a whole separate web page
But here
Unknown
Just names
Nothing.
III.
When you're not here
When I'm alone
I'll write it
and write it
and write it
and write it
and write it
Like grabbing air
While in a dream
For something so real
Just not there
To put you
Write in front of me
When you're not.
6 comments:
all of these poems are amazing Jane!!! i knew you wrote poetry i just never knew how amazing it was! you should publish a small book...
haha aww thanks, Braden. Yeah... I've really been wanting to the past year... but I've been kind of busy so I stopped looking for a way to publish them...so I'm just trying to get them out there right now... I need to find more poetry contests, too. I won my high school contest :]
do you have an actual blog??? i love your poetry but do you have another?
mmm not like a normal blog, nope.
I may do it later. but yeah. lol... I have to update this with some of my new ones I think. lol. I appreciate your comments and looking at this, though :]
i'm just trying to get my stuff out in the open somehow
when i become famous, my first order of business will be to get you published somehow.
haha THAT would be amazing. absolutely AMAZING.
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