Poems by
Laveda




Your Words



Your words
wrap themselves around me
like humid air they cling to my skin.
I am uncomfortable at their weight
and comforted
by their warmth.
and as you say
you know me.
These words have such depth
as to only find refuge within m soul.
How clever we are with words
to define that which cannot have meaning.
You are my existance.
My heart held in one hand
as a snow globe
to be shaken and watched.
We wait to see what patterns
present themselves
before our eyes.
I cannot say enough,
"I WANT YOU."
As if by saying so
would transform the world to my design.
But no,
you remain no closer now
than stars that glide across the sky.
And this is all there is.
Shadows cast upon the landscape
of tomorrow without the sun.
Moonrise in a shallow sky,
its face fills up the void.
The conflict continues.
What shape the dedication takes
when pulled from both ends.
A smile stretched taunt over teeth
to reveal a sorrowed cry,
a cry,
a sob.
Powerful images imagined.
For what will come in time and space
they themselves do not know.
But for wanting, unexplored contours
of your pleasure or for mine.
Knowing you is not finite.
The allusion is in knowing not the finite
not once,
but twice by now.
And so I linger between
worlds apart from knowing you or me.
Naked hope blushes at dawn.

L.E.W. age 15



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