Love Poem No. 57

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Illusive

 

You are the voice I will never hear;

the breath that I shall never feel,

And the arms that will never embrace me.

You are the eyes I will never gaze into;

the whisper that can never stroke me,

and the sadness that overwhelms me.

You are the light that will not keep me,

the darkness that will not console me.

You are my demon and my angel.

I am the soul you cannot save from harm,

the tresses that you will never caress,

and the body you will never know.

I am the song without a melody,

the heart without a beat.

I am the silence that surrounds you;

I am the secret that you keep.

I am your fool and your scholar, your garden and your desert.

I am the warmth that will never soothe you,

And the anger that cannot chastise you.

I am familiarly unfamiliar and simply complex - I am the contradiction

You are only words on paper,

you are only what my imagination will allow

my intellect falls in love and my world falls apart

all because you are ...... illusive.

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