On Closings (the last poem in “voices”)
August 23, 2008 at 4:40 pm Leave a comment
shades
i keep my shades drawn, these days,
though i’m not sure
i can say why (at times
i stand behind then, shyly and slyly
drawing them back just
enough to see)…
perhaps it’s much like the girl
who wanted my friendship
or perhaps even more; i
was lonely and needed touching, and yet
i drew away…wounding
her so that she turned from me,
never suspecting i desired
all she might give…
i walk past people, holding
my face still, my eyes averted,
my feelings
quite hidden…
and when finally
i force myself to speak
(voice rusty from disuse)
i rarely find hearers; but then,
i can convince myself
i don’t care, at all.
as, lonely, i hide
behind drawn shades,
closed doors.
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–Glenn
[probably dates from about 1976]
Entry filed under: poetry. Tags: closed doors, poetry, voices.
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