Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Tag: relationship

  • Connected Separately

    Connected Separately

    We are certainly connected by some ethereal twine,Absorbing our individual bumps and bruises,Yet feeling pain on the other end of the line.We are distanced yet close,lovers but hating,unforgiven and forgiven all the same. You may not feel the same as me, but nonetheless I feel.And feeling is second-best to having you, so feeling must do.…

  • You’re Actually Helping Me

    You’re Actually Helping Me

    This seems to me a bitter pill,this mindless drug,this tempting swill. Imbibing on the alcohol of misplaced clothes, no shame at all.I reach for hands, I touch, I kiss, but all the while I don’t forget – that when she leaves, with rosy cheeks,she’s leaving me, to return to him.

  • For a Woman Unknown

    For a Woman Unknown

    She appeared in that chair out of nowhere.She seemed to me like a phantom – with a lightness of face and character such that she might float up and away had her shoes not tethered her to the spot.This apparition might leave if not engaged, I thought, but I struggled with the words.Where had she…