This otherness that I sense...
Tamyka Bell
If it is not meant to be
(yet)
Then I should not pursue it...
But I want it so badly.
I have been given the strength to resist
But I have not been told how to use it.
I sense deep down that I know how,
But I want to stay in denial,
Because that is where I can keep you
Whole,
Entire.
Just a breath of you is enough
To light my whole world over.
But in this selfish, somehow selfless way,
I just want to give you more
And I can't.
I would quote strength and serenity
But all I need is your voice within
To win.
10 August, 2004
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