This one is a little different to the rest. Most poets write about the person they, publicly or privately, love. I never, in all honesty, thought I would become one of those type of poets.
Everyone has their own unique ways of expressing themselves, which is something that Caroline has kindly explained to me recently. For me, it's through poetry. I know it's normal for people to love others, and well, naturally the love that they feel is shown to the world by their own method of expression.
In truth, if I had actually tried to put into words the love that I felt for the person on which this poem is based, it would never have worked out. I would sit, and think, and think.. But nothing would come. The words for this one fell together, when I let my mind wander to where it wished to go.
In Case You Forget
If the days fly past too quickly,
And your heart just shuts it's doors.
You forget the first glimpse you took,
And you look away once more.
Will you still know what I look like?
Will my name still make you smile?
Will everything else be more important,
To only visit me once in every while?
Would you forget all of our conversations,
The ones no one else knows about?
We'll be “Mad Now, Mad 4Ever”
And, ominously, all the elephants will be wiped out!
Do you know how many times, you crawl right into my dreams?
To catch your green-eyed beauty was enough to fall in love, it seems.
You keep on coming back, like a tower in the sky,
You sit your chin upon my head as moments slowly go by.
I know you're mumbling softly, but I do not catch a word.
With my ear pressed to your body, your heartbeat's all I heard.
I continue to share that moment with your presence in my thoughts
Your hands clasped together; around me, is the only image that I caught.
I love how you call me your lady, and I call you m'dear.
And how you wrap your arms around me, as we walk, to keep me near.
I hate how I always wonder if this time you're actually gone.
Or how I simply come to believe I'm somewhere going wrong.
When I seen your face the last day, how lit-up it had got
To meet my face in a crowded place, and ground me to my spot.
There's only this one moment that draws my breath in slow:
We're on opposite sides of the street, both watching each other go.
Your smile is fading out, your figure growing small.
But in all of my memories, I feel, you never walk away at all.
So, just in case you forget m'dear
That the love in my heart is all yours.
I want you to know I'll keep it there,
'till the day you open your heart's doors.
December 23rd 2013
Everyone has their own unique ways of expressing themselves, which is something that Caroline has kindly explained to me recently. For me, it's through poetry. I know it's normal for people to love others, and well, naturally the love that they feel is shown to the world by their own method of expression.
In truth, if I had actually tried to put into words the love that I felt for the person on which this poem is based, it would never have worked out. I would sit, and think, and think.. But nothing would come. The words for this one fell together, when I let my mind wander to where it wished to go.
A dedication does exist, but I don't intend to make it public unless it's at the request of the dedicatee.
Additionally, things change and people change. That much I have come to know, more than anything else. I have already written a follow-up to this poem, which the dedicatee is unaware of, unlike he is of this one. I will post it in time to come.In Case You Forget
If the days fly past too quickly,And your heart just shuts it's doors.
You forget the first glimpse you took,
And you look away once more.
Will you still know what I look like?
Will my name still make you smile?
Will everything else be more important,
To only visit me once in every while?
Would you forget all of our conversations,
The ones no one else knows about?
We'll be “Mad Now, Mad 4Ever”
And, ominously, all the elephants will be wiped out!
Do you know how many times, you crawl right into my dreams?
To catch your green-eyed beauty was enough to fall in love, it seems.
You keep on coming back, like a tower in the sky,
You sit your chin upon my head as moments slowly go by.
I know you're mumbling softly, but I do not catch a word.
With my ear pressed to your body, your heartbeat's all I heard.
I continue to share that moment with your presence in my thoughts
Your hands clasped together; around me, is the only image that I caught.
I love how you call me your lady, and I call you m'dear.
And how you wrap your arms around me, as we walk, to keep me near.
I hate how I always wonder if this time you're actually gone.
Or how I simply come to believe I'm somewhere going wrong.
When I seen your face the last day, how lit-up it had got
To meet my face in a crowded place, and ground me to my spot.
There's only this one moment that draws my breath in slow:
We're on opposite sides of the street, both watching each other go.
Your smile is fading out, your figure growing small.
But in all of my memories, I feel, you never walk away at all.
So, just in case you forget m'dear
That the love in my heart is all yours.
I want you to know I'll keep it there,
'till the day you open your heart's doors.
December 23rd 2013
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