Should have already done this. But I’ve been busy!
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Day: September 22, 2013
Needed
In understanding others
There is a price to pay.
Sometimes, we just get it wrong,
Dismissed, go on our way.
It’s hurtful when that happens
And I’m sore so deep inside
That reaching out brought you no comfort.
You chose to hide and not confide.
I don’t need or want your secrets,
Your worries and your fears.
I don’t need other burdens.
I have enough to last for years.
I suppose I’m just this person
Who cannot see a need
Without reaching out to offer,
To try to help you feed.
A way of being, a pair of arms,
If you want, a listening ear.
But, mainly, offering love, support
While you cry internal tears.
I recognise this need in me.
It’s a need for feeling needed.
Ignoring doesn’t work at all.
I’ve tried, but it won’t be heeded.
Video reading Needed
Your Voice
Your voice is quite mellifluous
In my imagination
It washes clear across my pores
And takes me to your nation.
It may be one like Hugh of Oz
That melts and quivers knees,
Or could be spoken like a kiss
That touches, breathes with ease.
It could be a Canadian
Or US dialect,
It could be Scots or Irish
With a something in its fleck.
It could be just my hearing
That warms to accents so.
It may be just the words you say
That cause ears and heart to glow.
Beauty Within and Without
Perception of beauty
Conveys
A dream
Of fantasy
Fuelled
By lies
Though
Not all that
Glitters
Or flaunts
A truth
Should
Thus be so
Despised.
But
Care be taken
For the few
Whose
Beauty
Hides
A scar
Enraged
By cursed
Destruction so
Will bite and
Hope to mar.