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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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Rhymes - 24. Timing

After watching a movie where the actor reminded me of a guy I used to know briefly but grew to care about quite a lot, I decided to pen down our story together.

I met him

 

First,

In between episodes of a disaster,

A haze of strobing lights on a night

We dedicated to forgetting.

But daylight broke the dark

With a glaring blindness

That branded me with

New scars-

 

-the second time we met,

I smiled across the room,

Wondering if he had

Remembered the night

We were strangers.

But tired of wondering

I texted a number

With no last name attached for -

 

-the third time,

The drunken stumbling

Filled out into an endearing

clumsiness as he tripped

Approaching:

A sheepish grin.

 

And as he rolled his R's,

Sharing healed over scars,

I drew closer.

But as we lay together,

He wielded his objectivity

As a shield,

Drawing distance

From any more than flesh.

 

So weary from the weight of recency,

I refused.

But still, months later,

I wonder

If he ever let anyone close

Enough.

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That’s a beautiful poem, despite the melancholy and pain which radiates from its lines. But I, too, wonder. 

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