Incomprehension

9 May 2011

12:09 in a foreign bed alone
For a moment with Bon Iver
Playing in the background. Hear
How the music pulls one close
And away again, the same way
I miss you, not always.
Sometimes I’m not sure
What throbs, whether
My dreams are telling me that
I want you. But I do,
The way one walks forward for feeling
A strong fish-line underfoot
Yet knowing, for the same
Reason, how precarious
It all is. I miss like presque vu,
The way we feel drunk
Just hearing stories about drunkenness-
The things people do, beyond themselves.

How much of a need is intimacy,
The way it grips a heart?
Funny how we sympathise
With homeless children but scorn
Ourselves for loneliness.

You open the door and return
To my side. It is 12:16,
I am still. Bon Iver
Sings on in the background,
My mind’s in a foreign bed.
I am, alone.

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2 Responses to “Incomprehension”

  1. sam ng Says:

    will you hate me if i say this reminds me of cyril’s writing hahaha. before he became a gross pig of course. love it mich!!

  2. elefant Says:

    that’s such a compliment haha why would i hate you! hehe thanks so flattered :)


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