Chip on Your Shoulder
An Almost Perfect Resting Place
How did the universe,
In all it’s clever design,
Manage to make me fit
Nearly perfectly in your arms?
Lying face-to-face,
Hearts beating in tandem,
Holding one another
Like it’s our last night.
Legs like 4D Tetris pieces.
(“Tetriminos”, I learned.)
Overlayed gracefully,
Almost ergonomically.
I wish there was a way
To be back there again,
But it’s too painful
To even consider.
We were so close to perfection,
It makes me feel numb.
To think of why
It can never work.
But it just wasn’t meant to be.
Because as perfect as it first seemed,
My traitorous shoulder
Is now horribly asleep.
Update Mar. 6, 2024
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Comments (8)
this is magnificent. brings out so many emotions.
Well done! Keep pushing forward with your excellent work—congrats!
Your poetry, which speaks to the depths of human passion and desire, beautifully expresses the bittersweet sorrow of a love that was once perfect but is now lost.
Beautifully written!
I love this, keep the poems coming!!! 😊❤️
Fun! And accurate.
Congrats on Top Story!🥳🥳🥳
This is all kinds of sad, beautiful, powerful and stunning. Congrats on a fine Top Story. I've subscribed so I can read more of your writing.