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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Such A Romantic

by Marc Gunn, November 2, 2005

I just got done watching Before Sunset. The movie lacks the beautiful scenery found in Before Sunrise, but what a great movie. It moves me and inspires me to dream as I did with this sappy, dream-filled poem.

I'm such a romantic.

I sit here dreaming of those who got away. The ones I loved. I realize how unimportant... trivial some things were and wonder what the Hell was I thinking?

Love. It's fleeting.

Am I doomed to follow the sunset steps of misappropriated love?

Now I sit here with a cat in my lap. My only love. Or one of them. My children. Those that I wish I had. They're furrier than I hoped, but I guess this was better.

Except...

I want to travel the world. And I worry that they won't want to.

What I really want is someone to share in the adventure.
But I want to be happy in doing so. An adventurous spirit.
Heart-felt and holy in her desire to live.
Young in heart, but not bound by the trivial confines of reckless youth.

And I want to love and be loved.
That's the trick too.
Too often the overwhelming emotion eludes me.
I trickle into a torrent of unsatisfied menagerie.
Disheartened by my inability to recognize truth
In my own beating heart.

The road goes ever on
But seems too far to begin the trip.
Much easier is it to hide in my flat
And flatten my dreams.

But THIS romantic love
That haunts my light heart
And makes me quiver with delight
As I gaze into the blackened box
That holds ALL my dreams...
  Or does it?

Maybe the adventure is JUST beginning
Maybe the song has JUST begun
Maybe the smile that JUST was hidden
Will awaken tomorrow with adventures unsung.

posted by Marc Gunn @ Wednesday, November 02, 2005

 

5 Comments:

At 9:28 PM, Anonymous Jennifer said...

Wow...
I'm not usually moved by poetry, but this one did the trick. I loved it! I hear ya.

 
At 1:01 PM, Anonymous Kelly said...

This is the first of your poems that I've read. It's beautiful. Literally brought tears to my eyes and sorrow to my heart.

 
At 1:43 PM, Anonymous judi barton said...

The last four lines summed up the entire poem in it's most beautiful form. Simple and loving. Blessed be!!

 
At 10:09 PM, Anonymous Joe W. said...

you have a real talent with words. very strong emotions in this one

 
At 10:37 PM, Anonymous Cameron Sharpe said...

Most people experience this type of love many times in their life. It is when you see that person for the first time and he/she makes your knees go weak or gives you butterflies in your stomach.i.e. "Love at first sight”. Most people don’t even love the person they think they are in love with…they fall in love with the idea if being in love. This is more of a lustful kind of love, it wears off after a while and hopefully leads to…

 

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