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Poem: Muse
by Roe
Every time I look at you, I can never seem to figure out what to do.
I want to kiss you and touch you and taste you and love you, yet I can't do anything.
You're far out of reach, like you're in outerspace, while I stand
alone here on earth.
You're a muse among men, a god amongst mortals. I fear no one and
nothing when I know you're there.
I feel you watching my every move, smell you when you walk into a
room and see you light it up...like you're
the candle that lights the path on a moonless night.
You are my guide and my strength...all I have to do is reach out and
know you are there. Though I can't touch
you I know it is you I hold in my arms as I sleep. Only in my
dreams...dreams made for you and your perfection.
I look up into the sky and often wonder if it's me you see or if
it's the person I want everyone else to see. Do you see
the shattered me or is it just the reflection? Like the water
rippling away from each other, I feel myself drifting each time
you are near. So near, yet so far. Out of reach, yet so close I
can taste you.
Your eyes remind me of the shining stars in the heaven and your skin
the smoothest alibaster white. Your hair the smoothest
spun silk and your heart like that of pure gold...so generous.
Still yet you push me away but I cannot help but feel not but love
for you. My god. Each time I speak it is only to spout worship to
you, and each time I hear even the softest murmur of laughter
or words fall from your lips I feel as if I'm drinking from a
fountain of the purest streams.
It is you that keeps me sane and you that keeps me here. You chain
me to your will and I can do nothing but obey it. Though you
are far, you are so near. How I love you, my muse. I could write
odes to you should it bring pleasure to your ears. Oh if only I could
take away the pain that you have born for so long...make it mine so
that this god among men has no burden.
Alas it is not meant to be, for you are with another, not with me.
Each time I see your face light up around the other it tears my heart in
assunder. Yet still I cannot help but feel the love you have for
me, and I for you. And it keeps me going...just knowing that we too are
star-crossed lovers. Me and you. Forever apart. Yet so close.
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If anyone wants to use this in a fic, please feel free to use it,
but please ask me permission. And let me know what story it is if
you use it. Cause I really want to read it! Thanks!
Roe