A romantic without romance
is like a heart that beats faint
a dreamer who wakes,
but cannot remember
A lover without love
is one who feels,
when there is no touch
someone who craves a taste
of lips not yet felt
A dreamer without sleep
finds confusion in waking
remembering a vague reality
something they cannot pinpoint
a surreality they understood so well
An artist afraid to create, to feel-
A heart in a holding pattern-
is all these things, broken and alone
Unable to to be loved by one not there
Unable to wake into their living dreams
Unable to love a heart longing to loved
© copyright by Michèle Aimée Lahaie, 2010
4 comments:
True, but
an artist without pain
is only a caricaturist,
Exploiting the features of another
but leaving his soul untouched
Exactly. I think it's from pain and chaos that we create our best works, and find most profound meaning:
"An artist afraid to create, to feel-
[is] A heart in a holding pattern-"
did u like how i tried to follow your style of poetry? Haha I dont know if I mastered it but it was a feeble attempt. haha
I did :) I noticed it, and wondered if you were being poetic on purpose, or if it just came out that way. I liked it :)
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