Stoli Soaked Sestinas

kinetic (poem)
August 27, 2003 � 2:01 p.m.

First Entry Today

Here is a poem I wrote a bit ago. It's one of my faves. I love the tempo.

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~~~~~~~~~~K-I-N-E-T-I-C~~~~~~~~~~~

If I stay in motion

maybe I won't have the notion

to sit here and pine away for you...

to miss you so much.

In desperate need to have you here

frustrated and berated in shedding these tears

hoping for the impossible---

still daring to hold onto my dream.

Dreams of finding one like you...

if I can't have you,

at least I could have a facsimilie.

In the end I know it's groundless

and just a fanciful illusion,

because no one else can do

what you do to me.

Spoiled and soured for any other man

I fall in awe in between your verses.

My heart beats in the 2x2 time of your name,

pulse thumps from the kisses your lips disperse.

So maybe if I stay in motion

my heart will quiet and become still

and my mind will be too busy to occupy thoughts of you.

Maybe if I keep moving, my soul will be able to untangle itself

from motivations of dwelling with you...

maybe if I keep in action

I will finally muddle my way through

the hopes, yearnings, delusions, and dreams

and just come to accept

that

there's no way of escaping you

or stopping this friction

our dictions

has created

in the cosmos...

pure kinetic energy.