2008
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© 2008 Sandra Jean-Pierre
How will you meet me?
hands out front
alluring
luring me to you?
How will you
coolly meet this primal
gesture of affection?
palms out front
hands to the sky
How will you meet me?
Out on these roads
walking the walk of living folks living
revisiting the melancholy
of your love and loving
arms out front
hands above your ethereal hair
how will you meet
me this day?
this hour?
this direction?
I am finding myself
veering into
away from
converging
standing in this mire
knee deep in this shit
I am running into you
You are slamming into me
I am meeting your flame
You are matching my fire…
heart to heart
hand in hand
fear to fear
lips a kiss
and we are not moving
we are not running
life is not un-doing
itself like cellophane dreams
fist full of doubt
from my chest
to the sun
burning
I scream (!!!!!)
the scream of warriors
not afraid to die
you staring down my apprehensions
me singing incantations of your truth
getting lost
lost in the words of words of feelings with no names
meeting me there
meeting me in the
fires’ centers’ center
NO! NO! NO!
I’ve no warnings
no strings
no survival guides
How will you meet me?
I’ve asked myself the same things in the same ways. I truly enjoyed this poem and the emotions it made me feel. And of course the things it made me think about. Thank you for sharing.