Panic in your face, you write questions
to ask him. When he arrives,
you are serene, your fear
unbetrayed. How unlike me you are.
After the dance,
I see your happiness; he holds
your hand. Though you barely speak,
your body pulses messages I can read
all too well. He kisses you goodnight,
his body moving toward yours, and yours
responding. I am frightened, guard my
tongue for fear my mother will pop out
of my mouth. “He is not shy,” I say. You giggle,
a little girl again, but you tell me he
kissed you on the dance floor. “Once?”
I ask. “No, a lot.”
We ride through rain-shining 1 a.m.
streets. I bite back words which long
to be said, knowing I must not shatter your
moment, fragile as a spun-glass bird,
you, the moment, poised on the edge of
flight, and I, on the ground, afraid.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Copyright © 1995
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Bombardment by Siegfried Sassoon
- If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
- The Colloquy Beneath by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- Владимир Маяковский – Служака
- Exodus by Taha Muhammad Ali
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Спортивный марш
- A Hymn for Christmas Day by Thomas Chatterton
- To George Felton Mathew poem – John Keats poems
- Get together by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Николай Гумилев – Ольге Людвиговне Кардовской
- Наум Коржавин – Как ты мне изменяла
- VERY DISTURBING by Satish Verma
- On Mr. Gay poem – Alexander Pope
- The Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus by William Cowper
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
